Wireless PCI Card Help

[anastn]

I recently purchased a Linksys Wireless-G PCI adapter (it is both 802.11g and 802.11b compatible). I am using this card to connect to my neighbors Linksys router until my internet is turned on, however the connect seems to drop almost every 3min and then I have to manually reconnect.

Now my roommate has a laptop with a wireless card and he is able to connect to this router fine without any disconnects.

I have tried using both the driver that came on the installation CD and updating to the newest driver but this made no difference. I have also tried using both the infrastructure and ad-hoc settings for the wireless PCI card.

Unfortunately this neighbor did change the router's login password from the factory default so i cant mess with its settings, but given the fact that my friends computer never disconnects and mine does I think it is a problem with the card.

[cat5e]

Are you aware that both of you are basically breaking the law by Stealing Signal.

[rock]

Does your neighbor know about this?

There was something in the news this weekend about some guy getting busted for this. I think it's a class 3 felony now (unless I'm confusing articles).

[ImaNihilist]

It may have to do with the Wireless Zero-Config in Windows XP. What version of XP are you running? Home? Pro? SP1? SP2? Certain Linksys cards and drivers have problems with Windows XPs native WiFi support. You might need to turn off Wireless Zero Config, which runs as a service when Windows XP boots up.

[ImaNihilist]

There was something in the news this weekend about some guy getting busted for this. I think it's a class 3 felony now (unless I'm confusing articles).

I have a feeling there was more to that article than meets the eye. I read it, but I highly doubt that the local PD would bother to charge and arrest someone for stealing a WiFi singal unless they were really, really bored or had some other kind of motivation. It's a fairly hard thing to prove too. I mean, you are going to have to access the router in question and it just seems really messy. He was probably trafficing child pornography or something.

[rock]

Here's a link to the story: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._wi_fi_theft_1

He was sitting in an SUV outside the house where the router was. Doesn't look like there was anything odd going on other than steeling the bandwidth.

[ImaNihilist]

Here's a link to the story: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor..._wi_fi_theft_1

He was sitting in an SUV outside the house where the router was. Doesn't look like there was anything odd going on other than steeling the bandwidth.

He was probably sitting in someone's driveway and the homeowner called the police. If I saw a strange car in my driveway with a man with a laptop I'd be weirded out too.