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Thanks for all the replies.<BR>
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I was a sys admin in a former life, and that doesn't sound too scary to me (at least not from the point of securing the local network). As long as your wifi is outside your corporate network firewall, it shouldn't be much different then having the rest of the internet traffic making it to the edge of your firewall. <BR>
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Of course the separate problem is that you have traffic that appears to outsiders to come from your network that is originating from third parties over the wifi net.. In any case, that sounds nice of your company (assuming it is intentional).<BR>
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There are a lot of free wifi connections in Seattle - mostly home users (Seattle Wireless network) and small coffee shops sharing access since broadband here is typically a flat fee per month. Linux has quality of service modules, so it is possible to have hard rate limits and/or packet prioritization to limit the wifi based data from impacting your internet connection. Even on my single user home network, I have my Linux router give higher priority to ssh then say ftp, so that my ssh connections don't bog down from background traffic.. (there's my tie in to Linux, so this isn't to far off topic :-)<BR>
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Valient<BR>
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On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 04:07, Enkidu wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#68151e"><I>Our corporate wireless network is open to anyone. However the
corporate LAN is secured. So people can connect freely to the Internet
over it, but can't get at the corporate network. That's the theory.
Scares the &#$% out of me.
Cheers,
Cliff
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:14:38 +1300, you wrote:
>there's also a few warchalks around the place, marking badly set up
>office wifi that you can borrow :-)
>
>have a google for war-chalking, and then look for the symbols
>grafitti-ed on lambton quay.
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>On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 22:59, Rob Giltrap wrote:
>> On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 09:32, Valient Gough wrote:
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>> > Are there any free 802.11a/b wireless access points in downtown?
>> > Especially nice would be something near to the Cuba Mall and Ghuznee
>> > St. area, but I'll go out of my way for a good connection!
>>
>> Take a look at </FONT><A HREF="http://www.cafenet.co.nz/"><U>http://www.cafenet.co.nz/</U></A><FONT COLOR="#68151e"> which should provide what you
>> need
>>
>> Rob.
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>Brenda Wallace <brenda@wallace.net.nz>
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