Pirating & Extending Wi-Fi Connections........ Connecting to ATS over unknown neighbors Wi-Fi's
Was playing around tonight and did a cool experiment. I was reading how you can use a Pringles potato chip can to make your Wi-Fi adapter have a highly directional antenna and hugely extend the range.
As it turns out the Pringles can is foil lined and has a length and diameter that is resonate at 2.4GHz. This is the same frequency use by Wi-Fi it just so happens. I€™m sure Pringles will never change the design of this can since its new found fame. I read about Soldiers stationed in Iraq using the Pringles can trick to extend there Wi-Fi range between areas on a Base. What the Pringles can really does is to concentrate the microwave signal making it into more of a beam€¦ and very directional. This in turn allows the signal to travel much farther then even thought possible.
So tonight I gave it a go and had amazing results. I taped the can to a telescope to make it easy to point and move back and forth. I found 24 SID's being Access Points or other computers looking for other pears (PTP) to connect to with scanning in only a few directions and I live in the suburbs! There must be many more.
Of the networks I found 3 were wide open and unencrypted and I was able to pirate there connections. By entering the IP 192.168.1.1 (this is the Router Gateway IP) you will be prompted for a password & I just entered the default of €œadmin€ and was able to even access the guys Router config. I changed the default channel of 6 to 11 and got even better signal range being less traffic on that channel.
One last thing to note: If you do make a connection into a neighbor€™s network be sure to click on your "My Network Places" Icon. If the neighbors network has any computers on his net with File Share on you might have access to the files in his hard drives too!
Was playing around tonight and did a cool experiment. I was reading how you can use a Pringles potato chip can to make your Wi-Fi adapter have a highly directional antenna and hugely extend the range.
As it turns out the Pringles can is foil lined and has a length and diameter that is resonate at 2.4GHz. This is the same frequency use by Wi-Fi it just so happens. I€™m sure Pringles will never change the design of this can since its new found fame. I read about Soldiers stationed in Iraq using the Pringles can trick to extend there Wi-Fi range between areas on a Base. What the Pringles can really does is to concentrate the microwave signal making it into more of a beam€¦ and very directional. This in turn allows the signal to travel much farther then even thought possible.
So tonight I gave it a go and had amazing results. I taped the can to a telescope to make it easy to point and move back and forth. I found 24 SID's being Access Points or other computers looking for other pears (PTP) to connect to with scanning in only a few directions and I live in the suburbs! There must be many more.
Of the networks I found 3 were wide open and unencrypted and I was able to pirate there connections. By entering the IP 192.168.1.1 (this is the Router Gateway IP) you will be prompted for a password & I just entered the default of €œadmin€ and was able to even access the guys Router config. I changed the default channel of 6 to 11 and got even better signal range being less traffic on that channel.
One last thing to note: If you do make a connection into a neighbor€™s network be sure to click on your "My Network Places" Icon. If the neighbors network has any computers on his net with File Share on you might have access to the files in his hard drives too!
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