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Originally Posted by Stuart W
Ah, all the AP's where I work are set up by individuals / companies who want to 'show off'.
I must admit, it kinda makes me laugh, the walls of the data centre are so damn thick you only see WiFi at 70-90dB outside the building, so the people who 'see' the WiFi AP's are people who already have access to the data centre. Those people have a minimum of 100mbit Global Transit in their racks / cages, most having far more. (the company I work for have just over 11gbit of global transit)
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I suspect the reason we do it is not so much passers by nicking our bandwidth (we are in grade 1 listed buildings with exterior walls up to four feet thick, it's doubtful that enough of a wifi signal gets through that to be useful), more that we have students wandering round, and some are quite good at hacking.