I think the more important question to ask is why haven't you got security enabled on your router? or are you happy with people hijacking your internet connection?
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I think the more important question to ask is why haven't you got security enabled on your router? or are you happy with people hijacking your internet connection?
I think it's obvious they were using RADIUS. Jk, but seriously I don't use passwords, just local MAC address filtering. Most saavy linux users can break onto 9/10 protected networks in a matter of minutes (well, wep at least).
Also, I am getting that same connection status issue, but only when I manually configure my connection for a static IP. With DHCP, everything reads ok.
I was gonna ask the same thing. I see connections all the time with names like "DON'T STEAL!" that are wide open. Just lock it if you don't want people in.
Frankly, I keep mine open. I don't mind if someone needs to use it for a few minutes out there. I never notice anyone sitting using it. But my neighborhood is FILLED with Verizon FIOS users still using the crappy ActionTec routers with the 5 character random serial names and a password. We use Verizon too, but our POS ActionTec died years ago and we replaced it with a Linksys that doesn't suck like the ActionTec did.
Sometimes there's up to 8 of them in my Airport menu. And occasionally a different router with another name. Sometimes locked sometimes not. It makes me wonder why my list is different every time and who is the closest neighbor that has a WiFi.. Because they're always very low signal. Right now one of my neighbors named his their birthday apparently. 10071978. And another is named PETE.
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It is enabled, you just don't see the lock since I'm connected to it.
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I'm connected to my Wi-Fi network and I still have the lock icon...
Why do you need text, though? It's very, very obvious what clicking that button does, considering that "Back" buttons have been part of a GUI interface since... The Xerox concepts from the 1970s.
Depending on your perspective, that button may mean forward.
I changed my mind (I do that a lot). I like it the way it is.
If it was to be a "forward" motion rather than back, the arrow would be on the right side of the widget and facing the other way.
Unless you're using an OS that is built for languages that read right-to-left, which I doubt you are.
Really, that button could represent forward. How about an example for those of us who have trouble comprehending this:
You're at an intersection. If you turn left, you go down a one-way street, the correct way. So because the arrow on the sign was pointing left, that means it is backwards?
What country are you from? Because in most European-NorthAmerican "Western" countries, writing is from left->right
meaning if you're going right-> you're moving forward. Just as you're moving your eyes "forward" through the text.
and meaning if you're going <-left you're moving backwards. Just as when you move the opposite way of reading this text when you want it to mean absolute nonsense.
I know that. I'm just pointing out that depending on how you look at the button, it could represent forward. How hard is that to understand?
I'm connected to my Wi-Fi network and I still have the lock icon...
Still has nothing to do with my question.
I know it doesn't, it's just you mentioned the lock icon doesn't show up for you when you're connected, where as it does for me. Weird.
You do know that you can spoof a MAC address and as for WEP, who uses WEP these days? I might as well ask whether they still use MiniDisc and BetaMax.
You realise that if one of the users use it for something illegal - you are liable? (a precedence has already been set in a court case in the US where a person tried to use the excuse of "but it wasn't me, it was someone else using my network" excuse).
I'd say that it made a connection but the test for an internet connection was done before the connection to the base station was finalised. I have the same issue where my fathers laptop connect to the router where Windows Vista only reports connection to the network but no connection to the internet but it registers an internet connection after 5-10 minutes.
Its the internet, or else I end up having to ask 50 times like every other question I put up here just to get a response to it.
touché. But yes, I was waiting for someone to call me out on that before i said anything else. My wireless situation isn't really a practical one given the prevalence of laptops nowadays. At home I use 3 desktops which are always connected to the network, so MAC spoofs don't work too well. But yes, WEP is crap, and I use WPA2 outside of my main home setup whoever said WEP security was an oxymoron was dead on.
So in conclusion, do not build bridges out of pretzels. The water would make the pillars soggy, and cause them to collapse. Otherwise, they're great.
Here's the reason.
If you had Tiger, normally you would have to pay for the Mac Box Set to upgrade to Snow Leopard. So Apple has prevented upgrading because you could have Snow Leopard, then install it onto a Tiger machine, and drop in a copy of Snow Leopard final and upgrade for only $30.
My god you are an angry person. No one on this forum is obliged to answer any of your questions. People do answer to try and help you, so it would be nice to show appreciation even if their answer is not exactly what you are looking for.
Here's my thing: If you don't have anything relevant to my question, don't respond with something irrelevant. THAT, sir, does make me upset. Especially when it happens ALL THE TIME.
That. Freaking. Simple.
No ones obliged to answer, yet they're obliged give you a BS answer, heh...
How about this sweet heart, calm down - for some of us here, we aren't anally retentive; you may like to believe life is supposed to be a bloody missery of hard ship and pain but of us also like to laugh and have fun.
Uh, this isn't your personal help topic. If someone wishes to reply with something related to your question that is not the answer, they are free to do so.
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