MetaChat - My neighbor moved his/her router

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29 December 2005

My neighbor moved his/her router and now I can't get pirated WiFi and be on MetaChat when I'm at home. Hold me.

post by: sciurus at: 07:30 | 13 comments

* holds sciurus *

Hey! Get your hand off my router!

posted by dodgygeezer 29 December | 07:36

Fine, DON'T appreciate your birthday present.

posted by sciurus 29 December | 07:44

Our neighborts are like that too. The T is on purpose...Bad neighbors are neighborts.

posted by safetyfork 29 December | 07:53

You can use mine, sciurus. Send me your mac address.

posted by mike9322 29 December | 07:58

You can whuffle my wifi anytime

posted by dodgygeezer 29 December | 08:08

Does this mean the season of giving is over?

posted by chewatadistance 29 December | 09:58

::holds sciurus::

It's a hard life being a comforter, but someone must be there for the people....

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 29 December | 12:31

::holds back::

posted by sciurus 29 December | 12:41

Dude, get a pringles can and some washers. You're gonna need a pigtail and a place to stick it, though. You'll be able to get WiFi signals up places you've never even dreamed of.

(Yes, you may take a shower and scrub furiously after reading that.)

posted by loquacious 29 December | 14:24

Yeah, I help out in my neighborhoods WiFi mesh effort and have tinkered with the pringle can receiver. I'd have to put it outside though, and it wouldn't last long what with all the wind offa Lake Erie.

posted by sciurus 29 December | 14:41

Maybe your neighbor moved it closer to my mother's house. I'm back in Cleveland for the holidays, and I was overjoyed to see that someone'd left their network ["linksys", of course] open nearby. No more shittastic AOL dialup for me! [Less time spent at one of the nearby Arabicas reading MeFi on my laptop, too.]

posted by ubersturm 29 December | 15:31

Welcome back ubersturm!

posted by sciurus 29 December | 21:13

I'm currently surfing using a router called "MysteryMachine" because Windows XP doesn't like the 128-bit encryption on my host's router. I'm now wondering if the owner of the machine has a VW bus and friends named Shaggy and Scooby.

posted by TrishaLynn 30 December | 08:49

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