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Wireless at PAX?

JoshEEEJoshEEE Registered User regular
edited August 2006 in PAX Archive
So, I'm just curious if there's wireless internet down there. I see a lot of folks posting, but I was just curious whether or not they've got wifi at the center this year or not.

Bring it

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2006
    there's wifi in the red lion, so I bet there's wifi in the center.

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  • dpkdpk Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    The signs at the wireless "area" said they didn't have any internet access. I was posting stuff via my phone though, maybe others had similar hookups.

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  • silversh4d0wsilversh4d0w Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    There's free wireless at the Paragon, you just have to sign up for it.

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  • JoshEEEJoshEEE Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Cool, thanks. :D

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    Bring it

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  • leafleaf Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Extended Stay America has wireless highspeed for $5 per week or something, and dialup for free. Didn't bring my wireless usb, and they didn't give me the number for dialup.

    Though I don't really care, that was just the night we arrived, now we got highspeed here in the con atleast.

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2006
    I couldn't get access to the internets from the Center, but had no problem at RedLion.

    There is a 'freemeydenbauerwifi' spot but it takes you to a portal requiring a login.

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  • DocDoc Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2006
    They have internet access in the wifi lounge despite signs that claim otherwise. I saw a guy playing WoW on his laptop sitting right in front of the sign.

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  • Kato_ArabelKato_Arabel Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Doc, that's on a jacked connection. I'm not very trusting of unauthorized networks. I've already investigated two networks - one is "Free Public Wifi", and the other is "freemeydenbauer".

    The freemeydenbauer connection is HIGHLY dangerous - it has broken several wifi protocols when I attempted to connect to it, in terms of security.

    The "Free Public Wifi" seems real, but it looks like an ad-hoc connection, aka from a laptop. So I'm not sure, maybe the dude playing WoW is on a wireless PC card (like what you get from your service providers).

    Either way, I'd rather wait for SpeakEasy to set up their lounge, if they're coming.

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  • CymoroCymoro Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    I've been jacking either 'default' or 'linksys-g' for my internet needs.

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  • Kato_ArabelKato_Arabel Registered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Probably makeshift wireless connections that someone hooked up to the local Ethernet ports on that floor. I think I saw the ports somewhere along the south wall in the lounge.

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  • BigRedBigRed Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2006
    We caught a couple poeple hooking up a wifi router to the network in BYOC. Most likely thats where some of the access you might have found has come from.

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  • Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    edited August 2006
    Indeed, I remember some very pissed Enforcers checking each row in search of the culprit. They got their wifi router's confiscated, no?

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2006
    I was on an EVDO connection -- not really WiFi but it is wireless. ;-)

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited August 2006
    There are 10 Comcast Workplace modems set up over at the Red Lion in the convention area - just for PAX.

    Each one has a WiFi access point on it, but there are also 3 unused Ethernet ports on each one if you happen to have a cable with you.

    These modems are set up for 8Mbps also!!

    The WiFi is wide open - so go nuts!!!

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