Re: [OT] wireless network sniffers

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Benfield, John (Penta) wrote:
> I have a wireless network at home that works most of the time. However
> on the occasions that I can't get a network I pickup another network
> with a very stone signal (I normally get 1-2Mbps, this give 11Mpbs).
My
> PC gets allocated an IP address (via DHCP) but I don't appear to be
able
> to do anything else. I'm trying to find out what this network is, the
> name that coming up is complete gibberish. The really strange this
that
> we are quite literally in the middle of fields. The nearest house is
> about 1km away (as the radio waves fly), so I can't believe that it a
> home network. Also the icon in the control panel comes up as an oblong
> with a circle above it (rather than the normal aerial icon).
>
> Any ideas about what it could be, or how I would go about finding out
> would be most helpful. I did do some goggling but there is just too
much
> information out there.

It is prob reverting to a previously configured ad-hoc network since the
proper
AP is out of range.




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