Laptop

[Mr Men]

Not sure if in rite section, but i want to buy a lappy,this one;

http://www.staples.co.uk/ENG/Catalog...affixedcode=WW

My only questions are how do lappys work??? A few people i work with which i fucking hate reckon they just hack into a wi-fi network,hence not paying for a broadband subscription. Does this lappy have all the bits and pieces to hack a wi-fi signal without paying or do i need a higher spec i.e WI-fi card,wi-fi intergrated.

Im looking to take my lappy to anywhere and use it without paying in a nut-shell

Hopefully someone will make sence of this and explain in SIMPLE terms

[biffo1]

Hi mate in answer to ur question , wireless networks r only accessable if 1) they are not passworded up ie: no password inside the router set up , 2) u r given the password to access the network , or 3) if a person has hacked a network , the 3rd being the harder and time consuming to achieve , theres a few types of encryption u can use to password ur router , wep , wpa and wpa 2 , and bye the way that laptop has built in wireless and the spec is ok for the money ,

[Mr Men]

Hi mate in answer to ur question , wireless networks r only accessable if 1) they are not passworded up ie: no password inside the router set up , 2) u r given the password to access the network , or 3) if a person has hacked a network , the 3rd being the harder and time consuming to achieve , theres a few types of encryption u can use to password ur router , wep , wpa and wpa 2 , and bye the way that laptop has built in wireless and the spec is ok for the money ,

Thanks for the reply fella, So the lappy is ok[thank god], but its a case of a hacking a wi-fi signal to get ONLINE. So how do i go about getting a live connection without paying some wanky company again to feed my internet fetish????

Seriously Biffo mate can you help me and explain in idiot terms

[taylord1984]

you do know with a lot of areas now you can get free wifi with out the need to hack there all over the uk, do a search in google for wifi hotspots in your town.

[Mr Men]

you do know with a lot of areas now you can get free wifi with out the need to hack there all over the uk, do a search in google for wifi hotspots in your town.

Ive done a search for my area, but basically its town centre, i live on the out skirts in poverty city LOL.. so im stumped again.

[Mr Men]

Surely theres got to be a simple way of obtaining a connection without,well u know



Is it that hard to hack some tin,ernet time????

So its seriously looking like a pay as you go scheme to get a connection with that lappy [OP]

[taylord1984]

im no hacker but i can tell you that it will be quite hard to hack a wifi setup if it was set up properly. when i have set friends up befor i have used password with encryption and mac address filtering. so basicly you would need to be a very skilled hacker to do it. but then there are so many dumb a$$es out there that dont lock it up so you mite find some open.

[Mario87]

*cough*, thats what the security section in DF is for.

[marcode]

you could comprimise a network key, but itll take you a while.... by the sounds of your posts.

you can use other peoples unsecured wireless networks, however thats unreliable, reliant on proximity and illegal.

[blacksheep]

tbh mate - the way you're going about stuff and with your knowledge (and no internet connection to guide you) you're not going to be hacking anything.