[Novalug] Weird wireless wonders

D Rider twigboy2@gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 23:56:24 EDT 2007


>
> D Rider wrote:
> > But the XP box was never run on the other network!  How would it know
> > about a network 20 miles away???
> >
>
> After you returned from the dealer, did you connect the laptop to your
> home network?


No, the laptop (Ubuntu) I ran at the dealership did not come home with me.



In episodes 80 through 83 of the GRC Security Now! podcast, Steve Gibson
> and Leo Laporte discuss a "feature" of Windows XP that allows previously
> seen ad-hoc wi-fi networks to "jump" from computer to computer.  If you
> don't want to listen to the podcasts themselves, text and HTML
> transcripts of the podcasts are also on the web site.
>
> URL:  http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm
>
> By the way, the current known Wi-Fi distance record is 237 miles between
> two Venezuelan mountains using modified Wi-Fi equipment.
>
>
> http://wireless.engadget.com/2007/06/19/venezuelans-set-new-wifi-distance-record-237-miles/
>

Thanks.  I'll try to dig through that.
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