Re: any comp nerds in here?


"Hachiroku ハチロク" <Trueno@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:VNkxi.451$5y3.198@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:23:19 +0000, Jeff Strickland wrote:


"qslim" <Suckers@suckersdotcom> wrote in message
news:e995d6aed53353fa41bda1a8e66fe033@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm a nerd, but not necessarily a computer one. We don't have fios out
here
yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't be any different than a cable setup
like the one I have... Get a modem from verizon, plug it into a wireless
router, bada bing, bada boom, you're hooked up 21st century style.


It's even easier than that. The down-converted fiber optic signal is
ethernet, all one needs is a 10/100 ethernet card and a router. Wireless
routers are easier, but a wired one works too, you just have to run the
wires.


I'll stay wired for a while. I don't need any sniffers around here...


Well, you can secure your wireless router if you want, and if the router is not secured, nobody can see past it if your firewall is set up (on) .

I was a broadband deadbeat for a year or so before the owner of the router figured out that somebody was using his connection. Except for the cost that he paid and I didn't, I can't think of any reason why the relationship could not exist forever. I could not see into his machine, must less his network, so whatever he had was secure from the likes of guys like me. In any case, the buzz-kill that I am, I set a password on my router from the get-go. I don't want to foot the bill for a neighbor's internet connection.

I've seen and heard of neighbors that have seen cars in the 'hood late at night parked in front of what they thought were hot spots. Basically, they were broadband deadbeats just like me, but mobile. Of course, they could have been peeping Toms watching me through the lacy curtains, but I seriously doubet that I draw a crowd outside the windows ...






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