i know this sounds weird and stupid, but it's 100% true.
i live in a small house among a very large field, and there's no other house nearer than 50m (150 feet) from here. They don't even have DSL in this area and i'm using dial-up on the family's ancient desktop.
But around 2 weeks ago, everytime i return from school and place my laptop on my desk, it shows that there's a wireless network named linksys, with no signal level. I think it's some stupid error because i always forget to turn the wireless off when i return from school. However, just ten minutes ago i see the signal as "very low", and it's really connected!!!. I'm writing this on that network.
Again, my area doesn't even have DSL, let alone 801.02 g
anyone has an idea?
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If there are no obstructions in the way or extra radio noise from cell phone towers, radio towers, etc- a wireless signal can easily go much further and still be usable. 150-250 feet is not unheard of, I can leech a neighbor's connection who is six houses down with no problem, as long as I stay away from trees.
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Download and install NetStumbler and locate the access point.
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Even if nobody offers DSL in the area, you can get DSL over DirectTV and other satellite services. 150 ft definitely isn't a rule to distance, a neighbor could have put on a third party antenna however I doubt that being that they are still using the default SSID
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thanks for all your help
now i'm pissed, i downloaded network stumbler at 120kb/s
but it doesn't show the distance here
my IP is 192.168.1.107, i remember there's a website where they let you locate by IP address, anyone knows what it is? -
blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
Actually the 2.6ghz signal that 11b/g has a range of several miles in the open. The only way to determine where, is move around and watch the signal strength.
You can not locate private IP address only public. -
www.whatismyip.com
You need netstumbler + a GPS unit to be able to locate the access point -
My house is HAUNTED!!! Wireless network from out of nowhere
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by crappyGPU, Jan 22, 2007.