Any funny or silly stories about wireless networks?


Esquire

Esquire

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I've a handful of sillies about wireless networks. What about you folks? I'll start by sharing one of mine.

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I was at work one day and I got a called from the mother of a friend, whose wireless network I setup. She complained her Sony Viao notebook couldn't connect to her network suddenly. I asked her with the usual troubleshooting stuff, but nothing, so she insisted I went over to take a look after work.

I went over there after work and took a look and sure enough, no wireless network detected, then I noticed her notebook's wireless indicator light wasn't on. I flicked the switch and the adapter came alive again - she accidentally flicked the switch off with her thumb while she was typing and thereby turning off the adapter's radio!
 
i got some...

man, if thats all you get out of your folks, then the users at my place are proper IT neanderthals with the retention of a goldfish.

I have sales guys who forget that switching the radio off, means having to switch it back on again, and they forget how to do it. When you show them they pull the 'well it should just f'in well work when *I* want it to, alright... ' routine because they feel stupid!

the best one however is one of our supposedly savvy engineers who programs our machines, he has to have the biggest and best of everything.

he bought a dlink multiband pcmcia card with external aerial, and then just b*tched for weeks that he couldn't get a signal, eventually i got fed up and went and sat at his lappy, the great idiot had only set the card to somewhere in the 5ghz band because in his words 'i thought 5ghz was better because it's got a bigger number' this is all very well, except that we have 2.4ghz AP's.

Doh!
 
Just the usual stories of meeting rooms being installed with wireless access to facilitate the use of laptops, then a week later laptops are banned from meeting rooms because everybody is reading their emails during the meetings!
 
We have been playing with some wifi antennas at work. We were using a network analyzer to test some new designs. The network analyzer was located in an empty cube next to my friends desk. Along came a manager and called a meeting.

Everyone went to the nearest conference room and sat down for the meeting. One of the guys had his wireless laptop and was complaining bitterly that he could not get connected to the newtork.

It occured to us that we had not shut off the newtork analyzer. The new antenna was blasting the area with 2.4 GHZ and was interfering with wifi reception.

This seemed like a good way to solve the "reading email" during a meeting if you were the presenter.
 
one of my mates had a problem setting up an ADSL wireless router. He couldn't get a connection, he had 2 BT engineers out and one so called IT specialist out, but none could get the connection working to the ISP.

I came around not knowing much about ADSL just to have a look, and found the adsl lead was placed in the wrong phone socket on the back of the router

DOH :)

worked like a charm as soon as the correct socket was used.
 
You all remember when those d@mned Intel centrino wireless commercials came out? You know the ones; some cold shmuck and his shurpa are up on Mt. Everest and are video conferencing with their families and the Intel guy goes 'wireless anywhere!'.

Those commercials were the bain of every I.T. department - I've had people call me while they are in the alps asking why they couldn't connect to the Internet:

"Well, where are you plugged into?"
"I'm not plugged into anything, I'm using wireless"
"Is it asking you for a password? Something called a WEP key?"
"I told you, it's not doing anything!"
"Hmmm, where are you exactly?"
"In my car."
"In your car? You're in your car? You're calling me from your car?"
"Yes, I'm in my car"
"Are you near a building with wireless?"
"No, I don't need to be"
"What? Who the hell told you that?"
"The Intel guys on the commercial"
"What commercial? Where they in a car in this commercial?"
"No, they were on Mt. Everest."
"Are *you* on Mt. Everest?"
"Uhhhmm, no."
"Then you can't get wireless there."

I mean, sweet bejebus! I've debated many times of spending my vacation and cold hard cash to fly/drive to wherever they made those commercials and throttle the marketing people with a blunt object.

-fizzerfits
 
MAC incident

So we are working with a consultant who wanted setup on our Wifi.
So I set him up, and added him to the WiFi MAC allow...

So he comes in one day, and complians that he can't connect. I walked through all of his settings.

It took me 45 minutes of enabling, re-installing, changing to XP wifi controls, before I finally asked if anything else had happened to his laptop since he was in the office last...

Well come to find out tha this laptop hardware had crashed, and the consulting company pulled his HD, and put it into a different system. They told him everything was the same, which was true of everything except his MAC address on his internal Wifi...

cromrell
 
im planning to "steal" me neighbors cable wirelessly isnt that funny???

im not sure wireless is a funny subject or anything.

it will be funny when you all see me on the news either going to jail or in a body cast from falling off my tower....

ill keep you posted, get it?
 
well i dont thinkt that you will get arressted.i do it everyday , stealling my neighbors wireless network. i guess now it is a hobby
 
F***ed up my neighbor's Wireless net..OOPS!!

I have always been able to pick up and use my neighbor's wireless network. I normally don't, as I have my own. Recently I switched ISPs and the Actiontec modem they sent me had the same default SSID as my neighbor's. I was trying to re-configure my modem last night, and I changed a buttload of settings, including the name, and I added WEP encryption. When I was done, I hit "Finish" and my modem was supposed to re-initialize. Well, I had been doing all of this wirelessly, and when my modem didn't do anything, I realized that I had just seriously tweaked my neighbor's modem... I scrambled to log back on to the modem, but the new settings weren't right, and I couldn't access it at all.
...Sorry, whoever you are next door!
 
my story is not funny just wierd. i have a 2.4ghz phone that bond channels 1-13. so my entwork goes down everytime the phone is on. also it is about 5 years old. anyway i just installed a new fan on the router. and for somereason the phone does not kill the wireless network when the fan on ther router is on.
i have no idea what is going on but oh well solved my problem by installing a fan :D
 
the coiling in the fan is absorbing the xmit from th ephone before it can reach the radio. i bet your swr decreased also.
that is funny but whatever works
 
i was over my sisters place and over there are alot of wireless networks that are open. most do not have passwords. and most were linksys some were netgear and dlink. so i downloaded dd-wrt firmware on the router that were wrt and up'ed the xmit power. some did not respond and some wireless signal just died. then i changed some of the ssids to my name (not real name). last time i went there there were only like 2 open wireless neworks. and the rest had wep.
 
jagboy said:
i was over my sisters place and over there are alot of wireless networks that are open. most do not have passwords. and most were linksys some were netgear and dlink. so i downloaded dd-wrt firmware on the router that were wrt and up'ed the xmit power. some did not respond and some wireless signal just died. then i changed some of the ssids to my name (not real name). last time i went there there were only like 2 open wireless neworks :D
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So you decided to brick some people's 2.2 or 3.0 routers because you think it's funny?! You make me sick you little shit.
 
But you didn't brick some IT pro's WRT, you can tell that by the simple fact that they didn't secure their wireless... What you did was is find someone who might have found setting up their equipment very difficult and time consuming and then might have cost them £50 in buying a new one. I mean if their warranty had ran out then well they would phone Linksys tech support but without information on it being firmware updated Linksys will assume it is dead.

If I was an admin here I would ban you. And the fact you find it funny just shows what a low kind of human you are.
 
jagboy said:
If I was an admin here I would ban you
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ban me? like you never did something by mistake. i am not out there is ruin routers. if you dont like what you see dont read it
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I don't have a problem with people "making a mistake" however it is a very different story when those same people seem to find it amusing and thus clearly haven't learnt anything from it.

jagboy said:
:D
i did not mean to do it on purpose. people make mistakes that is why we have erasers on pencils. and you are asking your selve what if some one bricked my wrt while here is the reivial guide i wrote
http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4539
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Am I supposed to translate that into "I feel bad and it was an accident"? Because right now it reads like - "haha :D I trashed some poor guys router which was just for kicks really ... But no biggy if he knows how he can restore it here, but it was some funny stuff!"

And the fact you posted in a thread about "funny stories" with one about you trashing peoples WRTs is just impossible to defend.
 
you know what fine ok i am an idot for trashing soe guys router. are u happy now? what do you want from me?
 
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