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Re: [LUG] re homeplugs - VIP

 

Ah thanks for the clarification Alan, I currently run my network open,
although I live in a small rural village so the only person who
connects is a farmer who lives a couple of miles away and owns lands
here; he uses his laptop while he's breaking for lunch.

I am quite interested in the Fonera system, but I'd only be doing it
when I have my own place and my own connection (going to be in a
shared house for the next couple of years at uni).

Regards, Ross Bearman



On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Viv wrote:
>> I have just found out that our home network has been hijacked by a
>> neighbour, using a homeplug. We used homeplugs because we understood
>> that this was impossible - that signals would not get past the meter.
>> This is not true and we have tested it by trying it out at our
>> neighbours, the other side.
>>
>> We only found out that it was happening because we went away and left
>> the internet all on - when we got back we had a warning email from our
>> ISP that we were about to exceeed our monthly download limit. Someone
>> had download nearly 2 gb in 2 days !
>>
>> We are going to change over to a wireless router with encryption and a
>> firewall but, for now have gone hard wired.
>>
>> I just wanted to warn all of you, in case you are using these.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Viv
> It may be worth sending this to some of the Linux magazines,  so they
> can warn their readers,
>
> Paul
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