Anyone connect yet?

Andrew? I know you are gonna try this!

Does Esther Short Park in America Vancouver count.

A word to the wise. If you do not have a good strong firewall/antivirus program running then stay away. Hackers and data theifs will be all over this. also under no circumstances broadcast any financial information without having the SSL security on it. Packet sniffers will be running overtime and you can Bank on that!

Yeah, I won't even do a financial transaction on a wired connection without SSL. But open WiFi is certainly not new to Portland - we've had it for years, just not city-wide. Personal Telco has been doing it for a long time. Most McMenamins have free WiFi. In fact, open up your laptop all over Portland and there's a fair chance you can pick up an open WiFi network.

Windows XP SP2 has its firewall on by default and honestly that's all most people need. Just be careful not to share folders over the network without knowing what you are doing...

I've used the free Vancouver WiFi at ESP before, Washnotore2...

Andrew

There are places that even have PC's you can use for free. I cannot believe it when people sit down and sign onto their email and bank accounts. God are they nuts. Ever hear of keyloggers! Geez just leave your wallet on the PC while you are at it! Most place are honest and re-image the machines nightly by it only takes one not so honest place or employee to muck up the works for you! Always air on the side of caution when in doubt!

If you want to see all the wireless connections that are on the air in a given location, download NetStumbler at; http://www.netstumbler.com/downloads/

Just for fun, run NetStumbler and put your laptop in your car and drive around and see how many wireless connections there are. Some are wide open and others have the security turned on.

I drove less than a mile near my house in east Vancouver and there were over 60 wireless routers on the air!

It's amazing that some people just leave them wide open. That's an open invitation to "War Drivers" to hack into a pc.

I have the RF portion of my router turned off because I've got wired connections in every room and if someone comes over with their laptop, I just turn the RF on.

I don't suppose they are sophisticated enough to run an individual wireless VLAN for each connection are they? Na....silly question!

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