Can I suck some bandwidth in a wireless network??

Please help me here. I live in a hostel in Dubai. The wireless here is bad. We have about 30 users using one 2 mbps connection and all of them are downloading something or the other. I dont have enough bandwidth to even surf the net??

Can I steal other's bandwidth or something so that I get better speeds??

 

ummmm...well....no...

All of the QoS stuff is set via the router. But a 2mb connection is not enough for 30 users to share so it's just gonna be slow. You might try adjusting the settings on your wifi card to work in a crowded environment. That might help some if you are getting interferrence from all the other users around you.

Otherwise I don't recall anything that might work as I read you want...of course they could all begin having "accidents" while wandering the city or in their sleep...but that might be a tad extreme, plus people might begin to talk...

 

Your internet has to work better than mine. The apartment complex I live in has one 5mb connection for ~500 people, all college students which means lots of downloading and gaming.

 

I know it's illegal to steal wi-fi connections here in the US, and whatever I hear about Dubai, it's that the laws there are far stricter. I would be scared for my life to steal anything in Dubai.

 

Nah dont worry bout that
Everybody out here dont know anything in detail about wireless they wont be able to figure anything out.

 

Ignorance of the law doesn't make them immune to the law. Also, there is an ethical question to consider, sa_ill, isn't there?

 

kind of a sacry 'tude ain't it? makes us Americans look so nice to people around the world...geeze...

wonder what they cut off for stealing wifi?

 

For informational purposes only, it is not legal, but it is very possible to

"punt" people off their wireless connections...

 

LOL. Yep. I read about this. It's part of another thing which I won't get into here either.

 

like ZX wrote sure it is possible...but well, there can be, ummmm, issues with that option...ya silly!

 

Short of getting your own connection--I don't think there's a whole lot you can do legally. And discussion of the illegal methods cannot be held here on NBR.

I agree with what Gautam has said--I would definitely beware of breaking any laws--particularly in that part of the world.