OT: Setting up Public Wi-Fi

[Dan K]

I wrote:
>I've deliberately left my own wifi access point open
>(albeit with DHCP turned off)

which prompted Todd Doerpinghaus <doerps at sbcglobal.net> to ask:
>Why would you turn off DHCP?  Is is so you don't give
>out your ip address?  Security issues?

Yeah, makes it a little tougher for just anyone to connect. I don't even 
know how to discover the local subnet of a LAN without a DHCP server, 
though I'm sure it can't be too hard. As for my machines, I'm so used to 
popping in manual IPs I don't even think about it (well, except for my 
one PC (win2K), what a PITA that is!)

Dan K

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