{"id":472,"date":"2010-08-15T12:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T16:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2022-04-05T23:28:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T03:28:55","slug":"free-public-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/free-public-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Public WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"

[EDIT 2018\/03\/27] Initially in the \/. article and this post I wrote about APs but I meant the physical device. I was running the network in Ad-Hoc mode. Before the Belkin, I actually used a P150 laptop to host the AdHoc network of the same name probably even earlier than 2004. Maybe 2002? I had a PCMCIA card and created Free Public WiFi as an experiment.<\/p>\n

One day I decided to take my 11 megabit 802.11b access point by Belkin with me to school. This was in 2004\/2005. When I set up the network I made it an ad-hoc network called Free Public WiFi.<\/p>\n

I wanted to give my laptop access, and students as well who had laptops with WiFi. The school didn’t have WiFi yet. So I hooked an Ethernet cable up to the school’s LAN, and used Internet Connection Sharing to share to the AdHoc network Free Public WiFi. So it didn’t start as a scam or a network with no Internet. It started, at least in my case, with a student committing some sneaky WiFi sharing.<\/p>\n

Well it seems to have spread to Toronto. I see networks by the same name everywhere, even in 2010. I sometimes wonder if it’s the same ad-hoc network I started spreading like a virus through people’s machines when they save the address.<\/p>\n

You see Windows will connect to Free Public WiFi even if nobody is broadcasting in the area. You just become the first node.<\/p>\n

Weird.<\/p>\n

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Free Public WiFi is an ad-hoc network I started years ago.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[EDIT]<\/p>\n

Seems like others have noticed<\/a> this phenomenon but have no clue where it started.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mobile.slashdot.org\/story\/10\/10\/11\/1738257\/Why-You-See-Free-Public-WiFi-In-So-Many-Places<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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