Just found a wireless network in my neighborhood!! Now I need a good wireless card!

SWEET!!!!

If the owner has a brain, it may not last long. I found someone surfing on mine recently, and finally clamped down. I only allow my local MAC addresses. I'll open up security when WCBF folks are here.

there are three of unsecured wireless networks around here. one of them is mine. i live in a good neighborhood, so i dont mind letting anyone else that wants to borrow the connexion. i piggy-backed on my neighbors until i got dsl.

Stopping at MicroCenter on the way home from work today to pick myself up a wireless card. My Daughter brought her computer over, and that'* how we found the network.

I think it'* a corporate network, so they might leave it open. So long as it lasts a little while. When I make my last car payment in Novenmber, I'll go all legal and pay for my own cable/internet.

Damn you WillWren!! You jinxed it! The same network I started this thread through now has "Limited or no access"

So, I got a $100 wireless netwrok card and still no freakin internet...

Why would you pay $100 for a wireless card..........

This makes me want to ask an off-topic question....

How much should a wireless card cost?

And that is something I should check into at my house. There are a bunch of cable internet connections on my block...worth checking into?

Range. My computer is in the basement where I barely get a cell phone signal. I did some looking, and a cheap card plus an external antennae/amplifier would have run me about the same.

I might could have saved a few bucks if I was willing to wait for mail order, but I'm kinda impatient that way, so I bought what was on the shelf

They can be had for as little as 20 bucks.