wi-fi and a truck

I have a Sprint card, and I use wi-fi from truck stops when avaliable. The wifi is usually faster, but places like TA have very unstable internet. The best wifi internet is Flying J I've found, and you can direct conenct there via ethernet for better speed.

 

Every time at different Pilot's, I will see a very strong and unsecured router for Siricom. It looks no different than a F/J router or T/A one.

I get an IP, but no connection to anything. The error comes back as basically saying "I can't find the Internet." No log-on page, nothing. This has been my experience at all the Pilot's I tried, until I gave up on it.

It reminds me of how I have my home router set up, it is wide open, but if your mac address isn't entered in the router, you will not be able to get on-line either. That's the best firewall around for a wireless router, btw.

 

That's where I was going, actually. You can get an IP address from my wireless hub/router, but you can't get to the internet, nor can you get to anything on my home net - until I poke a hole for you in the DSL router.

I don't bother to encrypt (just because they can't use the internet doesn't mean the wireless traffic can't be sniffed) - but I don't care if others see what's going across the wireless. If I have secure stuff to deal with (C/C, SSN, etc), I use the hardwired connection on my desk.

 

Actually, the MAC filter is one of the weakest "firewalls" for a wireless router. Nearly every wireless card has the ability to change the MAC, and if you sniff for a few minutes and find a client that is connected, you can clone that MAC and hope he goes offline soon (since it'd just create problems if you tried using the same MAC at the same time).

On another note, it looks like Sprint is putting on a 5GB cap for their data plans, supposedly sometime in June. This means I'll have two null/void contracts, but I'll probably keep the actual service until they boot me.

 

I wouldn't worry about Sprint booting you for using too much data. I know alot of people that have VZW and use much more than 5 gb of data and haven't got booted. I think they are just going after the few that are tying up the latency the large cities with P2P crap.

 

No need to worry about that cap. I have been in telecommunications for the past 7 years before giving trucking a shot. I worked for Comcast and Qwest. I was in the Qwest Business Markets group and re-sold their mobile broadband cards. The service is sold as "unlimited", however, they did have a 5GB stipulation to it. The "cap" isn't there to scare you its only to let you know that they may be watching. If the service is being used as a legit internet connection that isn't being used for spam, p2p, etc. you will be just fine.

I never saw anybody get booted with the mobile broadband service. EVER.

 

From what I was reading on the V and S sites, it's not a hard cap - 5G is what's covered in the base payment. If you go over, they charge you for the extra traffic.

5G is a lot of traffic for your average user.

Obviously P2P blows that right out of the water.

Badly designed games do, too.

 

Not Sprint's, but the others certainly have.

 

Hrm - if you are saying Sprint doesn't charge for over minutes on their broadband wireless:

Just sucked that off their web site.

If that's not what you were saying - I apologize and will go away quietely.

 

The quote was saying that I'd never heard of Sprint kicking anyone off, but have with others. However, Sprint's unlimited plan had no overage charges because it was unlimited (and still is as of now). What they're going to do now that they've announced the 5GB/month limit? No idea. The additional charge there is for the 40MB/month plan, where it's charged by the kilobyte and not the minute.