just wondering is there a free isp for linux?

put in a wireless network card and see if you can find someones network I think I read about someone on this forum doing that

Hehe whats the maximum distance on those things? i live in a townhouse and the houses are pretty close. you think i can GRAB another persons connection with that?

I believe most when indoors reach up to 90 meters... and up to 300 meters if the router is outdoors. But this can vary I am sure between routers.. This I think is for the Linksys wireless router.

Put it in a weather proof box on the roof with a rotor and directional antennae on a short coax, run the power, rotor control wires and ethernet to it.

range line of site 10 - 20 miles if someone has one pointed your way

hahaha! i've actually done that (whore someone's bandwidth off a wireless network). just get a laptop, wireless nic, packet sniffer, and find some shmoe who bought an access point but didn't change the default settings (you'd really be surprised how many people do that). i love sitting outside someone's house in my car reading this forum. :-)

It seems by this thread that it must be pretty easy to crack a wireless network connection. I think I am going to stick with good old cat5e.

Although, I like the idea of installing it on a house. If I did that, my car computer could be linked up.

Ah, the possibilites

another highly informative thread! cool...

on a kinda similar note, me and my friend from 40 metres down the road where gonna try and share our connection and networks with a fair length of eth cable out the window, down the back alley and back in... but then i got cable and told him to go jump...

being a bit boring and answering the question tho... any NORMAL dialup ISP will work. it's only stupid companies like AOL that insist on daft procedures for connection.

i was concerned about my wireless network's security, but i worked around the problem by using.... well..... cement. :-)

my fileserver sits in my basement, along with the rest of my networking equipment, so i naturally put my wireless access point there. works great throughout the rest of the house, but as soon as you step outside the signal is gone due to line of site. the concrete from the basement walls gets in the way of the signal, and thus blocks any communication from outside the house.

it's really easy and probably the most efficient way of protecting your network from wireless hacking. :-)

is the wireless nic card plug and play? i mean in the linux system?

or maybe line your house with lead?

i have a friend who's dad put up a huge antenna to get radio signals. He can get the BBC with it.

uhhhh... not really. wireless nics are different from regular nics in that there are a few more options that are required to configure the card (channel, essid, etc). and as far as i know, linux doesn't come with much support for wireless. though, i thought it was really weird when i installed slack on one of my laptops, and it detected and started using the card right away, even without needing any configuration. that should be impossible, but linux never fails to amaze me.

if you want drivers and software for wireless nics i suggest http://linux-wlan.org/ that's where i got the code i needed to get my wnic online.

I was using Aironet on the boats to connect dsl from land.

Worked great, I had a linux box on both ends, one was running rp-pppoe with a firewall to the internet. The other was on the boat as a router firewall for the lan.
the setup of the aironet was done by direct serial cable.The ip address was set with dhcp based on the mac address.


I left a few ips open for dhcp but nobody ever got on it.