The future is bright, the future is Orange. At least on my line anyway...

I just wish I could piggyback on someone elses connection through their wifi router for extra bandwidth

I actually CAN do that. Perversely it makes my internet perform slower.

Odd. I can do that, if i knew my neighbours passwords

Do you know their telephone numbers? The netgear techsupport guy asks us to use those for the predefined key number code.

the netgear techsupport guy put me on the phone with someone in india who put me on the phone with someone in mebraska who put me on the phone with someone from france etc.

netgear makes crappy products as is it. the netgear paperweight I now own will never be able to be used again because its a peice of junk that destroyed its own software.

I spoke with the indian guy in tech support, he didnt understand my problem, and I barely understood his speech. (He was mumbling, heavily accented, and there was a party in the background, it sounded like...)

linksys > *

Hunter wrote:Odd. I can do that, if i knew my neighbours passwords

See, your neighbors are actually smart enough to use passwords. One of mine isn't.

Yeah. You'd be shocked by t the number of routers out there using

Admin
Admin

As their login

I use that as my login too, but mine is invisible/shared key protected.

My router is admin/admin, too, for simplicity, but the wifi part is MAC restricted to only allow my laptop to connect.

If I dare turn my firewall off, I get about 50 trojans within a minute... And the firewall doesn't seem to extend over the wireless network (?) so I ended up with my laptop totally overrun with porn popups. Had to grab myself some Zonealarm, and paid for two spyware programs as the free stuff wasn't doing the job!

o.'.O

...And that was a fresh install too. I've noticed them before - Without a firewall you just get attack after attack.

I don't think I could get that if I were delibrately trying to.