Julie wrote:

Ben S:

There’s also the fact that I live in the woods at least 500-750 feet or so away from any other house. And, my access point is in the basement. I’m not too worried that someone is going to piggyback on me.

Well, someone might piggyback on you, but I’m sure you’d notice the person leaning against a window trying to get a good signal.

Pity about the scan times, though – outside of that, it’s an interesting concept… and a bit of a promising one, to be able to do scans, and then plug the adapter into a laptop or some other device which (for some reason) lacks a WiFi adapter to connect right away. Although, I must admit I don’t see the point in making it an ad-hoc access point, since if you can detect a wireless signal and see if it’s encrypted, you could probably just connect to that instead of going through the USB WiFi access point, no?

There’s also the fact that I live in the woods at least 500-750 feet or so away from any other house. And, my access point is in the basement. I’m not too worried that someone is going to piggyback on me.

There’s no shame in having an open access point — you’ve got a right to as you please with your property and if your ISP has a problem with that, change ISPs. If your government has a problem with it — change that too!

http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/zyxel_ag_225h_wifi_finder_and_802_11a_b_g_usb_2_0_adapter

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