• stephen01king
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    10 hours ago

    So don’t connect anything from the same manufacturer to wifi and check if any of your neighbour has an open WiFi network, then? I’ve checked my neighborhood and hasn’t seen any open networks just yet, so I’m lucky.

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      6 hours ago

      Lucky of you, then. If not, what could you do? Go door to door asking your neighbours to close their wi-fi?

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        2 hours ago

        That might not actually be a bad idea. Telling them their open WiFi is easily connected to from outside might finally push them to put in some form of network security. Shouldn’t be too hard unless you have a bad relationship with them.

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          1 hour ago

          If that opportunity arises, please try and come back to tell us how it went.

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            1 hour ago

            LMAO, that would be an interesting story to tell. Unfortunately, for now, all of my neighbours are at least technologically proficient enough to put in a WiFi password, or at least not stupid enough to not let the ISP technician add it during installation.

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              1 hour ago

              […] Unfortunately, for now, all of my neighbours are at least technologically proficient enough to put in a WiFi password […]

              Fortunately, I’d risk. Let’s be happy for the smallest of things.

              […] or at least not stupid enough to not let the ISP technician add it during installation.

              What sort of evil is this? ISPs here just connect the router, call back to their operations center to set it up and go. The router has a very long and hard to memorize password to access the wi-fi and often comes hidden by default.

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                12 minutes ago

                Fortunately, I’d risk. Let’s be happy for the smallest of things.

                You’re right, it’s a good thing in general, but bad for story telling purposes.

                ISPs here just connect the router, call back to their operations center to set it up and go.

                Do you mean the technicians don’t setup the WiFi SSID and password for the user and that the router setup are done through the operation centre instead of on-site?