{"id":3995,"date":"2005-12-13T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/sharing-the-wifi-love.html"},"modified":"2005-12-13T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T22:32:00","slug":"sharing-the-wifi-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/sharing-the-wifi-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Sharing The WiFi Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">I live in a fairly secluded area and never bothered to encrypt my WiFi AP. I am just too far from anyone else to need to go through the hassle\u2026 Or so I thought. My Internet performance has been so degraded lately that I can barely work.<\/p>\n<p>I have further had to reset the AP a few times in the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed today that when I was looking at available wireless networks, another WiFi signal was coming into my house. I decided if I can see another AP then other people can see mine. A bit of sleuthing turned up two people on my access point who were sucking down my bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>I never had to deal with WEP keys till today. In my office MIS has been nice enough to deal with this in my office. Well come to think of it I have had to set WEP keys on a number of WiFi phones. <\/p>\n<p>In hindsight, I was pretty lucky. I never even changed my admin password so I am glad I didn\u2019t get my AP hacked.<\/p>\n<p>This shows me that even in rural <place w:st=\"on\"><state w:st=\"on\">Connecticut<\/state><\/place> where houses are spaced far apart the ability for concepts like mesh networking can take place. Of course if such a network were to be built we would need to ensure one or two users don\u2019t suck up all the bandwidth like what just happened to me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in a fairly secluded area and never bothered to encrypt my WiFi AP. I am just too far from anyone else to need to go through the hassle\u2026 Or so I thought. My Internet performance has been so degraded lately that I can barely work. I have further had to reset the AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[540,541,226,542,254],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}