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Old 08-09-2001   #1 (permalink)
 
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Found open WLANs, what now?

Howdy All,

I've driven around with the lappy, Orinico Gold with range extender antenna and Netstumbler and found plenty of WLANs, of which about half didn't have WEP on. I don't want to break any laws, or steal any secrets, but what's a good strategy for connecting to the WAP? I set the card to use the WAP in infrastructure mode and often get assigned an IP. But when I try to open my browser, nothing. I'm even trying this with pretty decent signal strengths. Could these WAP's just not provide internet connectivity? I want to take my "stumbling" to the next level. Any help/ideas are appreciated. Thanks.
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