[Ti] Range of connection

[Mark Gibson]

At 5:44 PM -0400 27/8/03, cbirds wrote:
>On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 05:27  PM, Mark Gibson wrote:
>
>>That doesn't matter. As long as he has wireless enabled on the 
>>router and you know its IP address and the channel being used, you 
>>can borrow some of his bandwidth. TCP/IP is non denominational.
>>
>>However, if he has WEP enabled you will need a password to join his network.
>
>OK this is where I am worried, IP address? How do I get that without 
>going over there. I thought I could just open the Airport software 
>and the computer would "find" it.

Well you can set the Airport connection to pick the network with the 
strongest signal (Assuming you are using OS X, System Preferences: 
Network: Airport) and set it to use DHCP but again if his network is 
password protected then you are stumped.

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