Re: Q on wireless
From: Randell D. (you.can.email.me.at.randelld_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/14/03
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:10:33 GMT
"Randell D." <you.can.email.me.at.randelld@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> Folks,
>
> I've got many years experience with HP-UX and about four or more years
with
> SuSE Linux - I have tried to search for a wireless newsgroup but can't
find
> one (at least, not hosted by my ISP yet)... so I thought I'd raise my
> question here and see if anyone has yet been in a similar circumstance...
If
> the post frustrates you, then move on - sorry to have taken your time -
> please save more of your time and forget about flaming me... cheers...
>
> My problem?
>
> I live in an apartment block - the apartments are small and a new
neighbour
> has just moved in with wireless internet... I honestly don't know why
> they've not just used a bit of ethernet cable... but their wireless
network
> has started making most of our TV channels all snowy - our wireless
landline
> telephone also gets interference - its a digital phone (not a cell phone)
> and it keeps skipping looking for another channel when we're talking to
> someone on it.
>
> The downsides is that the neighbour doesn't give a toss - he says its not
> his problem. I am liasing with the block management but that could take
> months for them to enforce anything...
>
> My question (which is likely to get a flame or two from freedom fighters)
is
> that since this chap does not care that his wireless is interfering with
my
> cable tv and phone (and likely also to be intefering with others next to
him
> since we're located directly below is apartment) can anyone come up with
> some idea on how I could either jam his signal or attack it... At the
> moment, he is not using encryption so I could perform some DoS attack or
> something but if he were to turn on WEP I'd be without a key and thus
unable
> (I believe) to go further...
>
> I know little about what some might call cracking (or brute hacking) but
its
> driving my girlfriend and I up the wall that we're now stuck with video
> rental for our entire TV entertainment...
>
> I'd like to encourage the chap to use ethernet cable - Can someone either
> 1) Refer me to a website/newsgroup that might give me info on how I can
> block his signal or make his life equally miserable
>
> or
>
> 2) Let me know a Linux tool that I could use with a wireless card that I
can
> borrow from work that might help the guy string ten or twenty feet of
> ethernet cable between his computer and cable modem as opposed to using
> wireless?
>
>
> Again, sorry for the off-topic post but this is a newsgroup that I read
most
> often because it uses a technology I am more familiar with... I thought
> someone else might have suffered similar and I'd be interested in how they
> solved things.
>
> thanx
>
>
Sorted... I left my tv/cable/computer in the same location but used cables
to extend the cable modem and cable tv decoder to another location.... so
far so good... fingers crossed... thanks to all who helped...
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