[dba-Tech] Wireless discovery

Fixing a friends pc last night, I made a rather startling discovery...

I've got a wireless LAN at home, so I didn't have to drill any holes to pass
cables from my bedroom into the sitting room below, where the Router and hub
are. I bought two wireless cards - one is in my pc the other is a spare,
which I install in every pc that I fix, so I can use the internet to
download drivers and update things etc. So I installed this card into my
friends pc, and spent an hour or so looking for the aerial, which had
mysteriously vanished from the plastic box. Upon not finding it, I gave up
looking and temporarily removed the aerial from my pc's card and started to
work on the other one. 

I didn't bother setting Zonealarm's button to "Stop all internet activity"
as I reasoned that not having an aerial would be a sufficient barrier to
hackers... Not so apparently. Imagine my surprise when an e-mail arrived...
So I looked at the signal strength... 6% quality and strength on my pc. I
removed the aerial from the other pc and found that sitting in the centre of
the room (rather than in the corner as mine is) it had a signal strength and
quality of over 50%... to say I was completely dumbfounded was an
understatement... it never occurred to me that it would be able to work
without the aerial.



Jon Tydda

IT Support Technician



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