Neighbours VM connection
 

Forget it lol, i will find out next week

Admin edit (Chris) : Oh, no you don't.

Original post:

I realise this is illegal and slightly immoral but i quickly connected to my neighbours unsecure wireless connection because i knew they had VM and i wanted to see if they had good speeds.
The speedtest from speedtest.net (unreliable at times) showed that they had 1500kbps download and 488kbps upload, the upload to me suggests that they are on the 10 meg package but was wondering if the 1.5 meg was a result of a congested UBR or because the unsecure router was at 2 bars signal and was set to 802.11b mode rather then G.
Congested UBR or was it the wireless signal causing bad results?

Re: Neighbours VM connection
 

Have you changed the admin password yet? :D

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Im not that mean ;)

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Seeing as you have no idea what your neighbours were doing with their connection at the time you hacked it, your speedtest results really don't prove anything.

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Technically he didn't hack it. it was already open.

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Theft of an unlocked vehicle is still theft. ;)

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Maybe, but you didn't have to break the locks :D

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It's still an offence under the communications act 2003

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but we were talking about if it was hacked into or not :)

Did the neighbour remove the security, or didn't it have any in the first place?

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It had no security, i told him yesterday (before i went on it) that it was unsecure and that he should hide the SSID, its not on my wireless list now so i think he sorted it

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Some peoples set up can automatically connect to open WiFi that are in range anyway. I'm sure there's plenty of people that connect to open ones without realising it, or even knowing it's illegal.

Virgin should be educating their customers on securing WiFi more. might help with over subscribed UBRs a bit :D

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Does a car dealer tell you how to avoid an accident whilst driving once you have purchased a car ?

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There is an option i think that connects you to the next prefferable connection, i made sure this morning that it was unticked so it wont happen again

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He probably would have to if he owned all the roads you drove the car you purchased off him on.

---------- Post added at 20:59 ---------- Previous post was at 20:58 ----------

Good lad :)
educate the clueless :)

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But he doesnt does he ? Just as VM only own a sliproad onto the motorway

I agree with you that there is a need for education with regards to things such as WiFi security BUT It's a personal responsibility not one for Virgin Media to be dealing with.