New Posts For Thread: anyone know anything about wireless connections?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connectionsi got myself a router and for some time everything was fine. but then my internet activity was really slow. my youngest had a look at it on his laptop, and said there were 11 differn't networks he could log onto from our house, if he wanted to.he's sWas just in my mate's car before. Went down a few streets and used his iPhone 3GS to search for free wifi from people's homes. We found about one unencrypted network for every four encrypted, I'd say. He says in some areas no-one has them encrypted (https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103466#417103466Was just in my mate's car before. Went down a few streets and used his iPhone 3GS to search for free wifi from people's homes. We found about one unencrypted network for every four encrypted, I'd say. He says in some areas no-one has them encrypted (Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:20:36 -0600probaly had people sitting outside your house in cars on their laptopshttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103162#417103162probaly had people sitting outside your house in cars on their laptopsTue, 17 Nov 2009 14:20:17 -0600I would imagine that you had a WEP security set-up but were sharing channels with your neighbours. Your nephew probably changed your wireless channel resulting in a better connection. And set up WPA2 security.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103158#417103158I would imagine that you had a WEP security set-up but were sharing channels with your neighbours. Your nephew probably changed your wireless channel resulting in a better connection. And set up WPA2 security.Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:17:38 -0600one last question;what sort of range are we talking about here?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103154#417103154one last question;what sort of range are we talking about here?Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:03:15 -0600You'd have to purposely pick it from a list. They probably wouldnt know who specifically the connection belonged to, just that it was one of their neighbours.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103150#417103150You'd have to purposely pick it from a list. They probably wouldnt know who specifically the connection belonged to, just that it was one of their neighbours.Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:01:20 -0600thanks chaps. i'm with virgin, and aint had many problems before. just been the last week or so, and he "secured" it last night and it's been fine since.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103146#417103146thanks chaps. i'm with virgin, and aint had many problems before. just been the last week or so, and he "secured" it last night and it's been fine since.Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:01:16 -0600would you have to conciously connect to a certain network, or would the laptop just "cop for a connection"?https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103142#417103142would you have to conciously connect to a certain network, or would the laptop just "cop for a connection"?Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:58:55 -0600area*https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103138#417103138area*Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:57:11 -0600If your wireless network is not secured then anyonw who is in range of the signal can connect to it and use it to go on the internet. So it was most probably other people in your slowing your connection. Another reason can be the quality of your intehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103134#417103134If your wireless network is not secured then anyonw who is in range of the signal can connect to it and use it to go on the internet. So it was most probably other people in your slowing your connection. Another reason can be the quality of your inteTue, 17 Nov 2009 13:56:31 -0600Yeah you probably had loads of your immediate neighbours connecting via your router and hogging all the bandwidth.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23406014/anyone-know-anything-about-wireless-connections?post_id=417103130#417103130Yeah you probably had loads of your immediate neighbours connecting via your router and hogging all the bandwidth.Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:54:41 -0600