Fry’s can be a dangerous place. Wi-Fi hardware is getting very affordable these days – in fact, Lisa’s laptop had it built in already. (At the VFP DevCon in Palm Desert there was a local Wi-Fi net that Lisa probably could have tapped into, had we thought about it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, what with our moving around with our notebook computers more than ever, we decided to add our own little Wi-Fi cloud to the neighborhood. After we set up the hub in our closet, we sat down with our laptops and – in my case – plugged in the wireless PC Card, and started installing the driver and scanning for networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interestingly, it seems our neighbours to the East next door also have a wireless network, because the net scanner in Windows XP shows three available networks: “default”, “Spacefold”, and “hishamay”. We’re pretty sure “hishamay” is next door. “default” may be a new one, or it might be Toni and Linda across the road who also have a wireless hub. “Spacefold” is us of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s all rather exciting. We’re using MAC filtering rather than WEP for security, if anyone cares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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