Airport Questions
Just curious:
Does the owner of a wireless network receive any notification, or discover, if and when someone else joins that network?
If the answer to that is yes, then what information about the connector can the owner learn?
Does the owner of a wireless network receive any notification, or discover, if and when someone else joins that network?
If the answer to that is yes, then what information about the connector can the owner learn?
Comments
As for being notified, I'm sure it's possible (with lots of tweaking), but I don't know of any routers that do that out of the box.
Hmmmm. Without major intrusion to my drive, can I change the name of my computer?
But if they really didn't want it used, why not protect it with a password? That's really simple, and I'm not going to try hacking in.
Rather like having my fan blow air - you shouldn't come into my yard to benefit from it, but what's to prevent you from standing outside my boundary and enjoying? If I don't want you to do that, I redirect it or put up a fence.
Not the best analogy, but somehow I don't really feel guilty about using something that someone is obviously making available.
And remember chickens rule "using someone else's WiFi is bad, mmmkay?"
:wink:
Oh and if your laptop is part of your home system.. TURN SHARING OFF BEFORE JOINING A WIFI NETWORK!!! I can't count the times in a wifi cafe full of macs they were wide open.. Also go the the terminal and run this..
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer guestAccess -bool false
It turns off Guest Access, Which by some strange reason is always left open....
Not using it much, just kinda discovered it all setting up my laptop.
I *always* have File Sharing OFF.
I am relaxed, and if whoever owns this network objects, I guess they can make the effort to find me, but that sounds like a greater effort than simply putting in a password to use it.
Don't really know what the spefic law about using somebody else's wireless is, but as it's not really much, I'll relax.
Thanks, guys.