How many wireless connections can you pick up from your home?

ive picked up 4-6 not including mine, two signals keep on going on and off, you wont believe this but all of them are unsecured,sometimes its funny i think im connected to mine when actually im not. heard this was illegal in america? if your out in the open, i dont know about inside your home.

 

I live on the top floor of a 12 floor apartment. Sitting in my living room, I can see mine, 2 unsecured and 3 secured. If I go into the kitchen, it's 4 unsecured and 4 secured (plus mine). If I go in the hallway, it's about 12 total wireless connections.
My friend lives on the 8th floor. Before I put in my new Atheros card, I could see his connection, and sometimes connect to it, but it wouldn't be reliable. Now it's really good. He's picked up the same card, and we now use each other as "backup" in case one of us has internet problem (I'm on cable, he's on DSL)...

 

I was in the city yesterday, and my laptop picked up 33 signals with decent strength, 26 of which were unsecured from one location.

From my home, I can pick up four or five signals, mine included, of which only two are secured.

Mike

 

I was in the car the other day, and I picked up 8 connections. Wasn't able to connect to any of them... (I was moving at 60mph). But 33 connections that’s crazy.

 

From my house I can pick up 3 alltogether. Mine is secured the other 2 arent.

 

I've got my own WLAN set up & can pick up a neighbors every now & then, but you'd be amazed at what all you can pick up even here in rural BFE middle o' nowhere Hokkaido, Japan.

What's even more amazing is that on the rare occasion when I go wardriving, probably a good 75% of routers are broadcasting default, unsecured SSIDs...sheesh, there's a lot of naive Japanese people...

 

I live in an apartment community that is huge, so I pick up way to many to sit and count.

 

I could pick up 4 but only one is unsecured. They must have caught on once when my PDA hooked up; it is now secured.

 

I can pickup two connections from my house, one being mine, and another one is my neighbors, but I have to be outside to pick it up.

 

I can pick up to 2... We live in a quiet neighbourhood. Only my nieghbour and me have wireless here.

Good luck with your poll

Charlie-Peru

 

Ok update now at my house I can pickup mine and 1 other with literally no signal...all of them are secured
Though from other places in my house I can pickup more and at some places none except mine.

 

I can still see ya with the right program. It's a known fact disabling SSID does not secure your network

But, I turn mine off just to hide from my nosey neighbors. Great WI/FI sticky!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetStumbler

Besides most people simply will not RTFM

 

I can only pick up my own. I live in an older cheap neighborhood.

 

I've gotten up to 8, 3 of which are unprotected and cable... not that i would know.... but i live in a suburb, pretty much i pick up signals from the 7 other houses around me

 

on my family home (gated, walled in, with gardens surrounded all 4 sides) i only get ours. the houses in the area are also pretty big, so even if they have wifi i doubt we'd be able to connect.
but happily though, in my apartment, i usually get 6-8, half of which are unsecured.
i don't keep mine secured either, i don't really care if they use it. heck, i sometimes use theirs anyway.

why would i need to hide/secure my signal besides preventing others from using it?

 

open wifi networks put your computer and any computer on your LAN at risk. as well, open wifi networks are used by bad people to do bad things and remain untraceable.

it's a bad idea to leave your network open

 

Having neighbors on your network will also slow down your connection speed. A secure connection is always a good idea.

 

well if you want to share your connection. just block'em from browsing your Intranet..some routers allows users to block'em

 

At my parents' house, just the one that I set up for them...which is no SSID broadcast, MAC filtering and WPA (would be WPA2 but my dad's 3 year old laptop doesn't support it).

When I was at school, I'd pick up a dozen or more from my room, many of which were unsecure, the rest of which were WEP. Of course, I have no clue if there were any hiding their presence.

When I go back to my new living place, I'm going to be configuring things differently. Previously, I had WEP only between my computer and printer, but I'm seeing that as a bit of a security risk, particularly in NYC. So I'm going to connect the printer to the router via ethernet and run the rest of the network wirelessly, which will let me do all the WPA/MAC filtering/no SSID etc.

 

I can pick up 6, including my own. Four are WEP enabled, mine is WPA enabled, and one is wide open. I know who has the open network, because he's named the SSID after himslef. ("Chip") I've considered mentioning it to him, but one day last week my FiOS went out for a couple of hours and "Chip" enabled me to get some email sent.

I'll tell him someday. Maybe.

 

I can pick up 41.

 

6......5 of which are unsecured.

 

Where do you live? The most I have ever picked up is 11.

 

In my NYC appartment it varies betwen 10-20... it will depend where i am in my house (bedroom,kitchen..) and on the time of the day, i think some people only turn the wireless on when their home...

and most of them are unsecured..

I even get the NY heliport on 30th St network and I'm on 16th floor about 1/3 mile away

 

Some people probably have big ass antennas as well, so they're picking up signals 1/4 mile away

I've seen 3 but usually only see mine and another person's (unsecured). I don't bother using anyone else's connection because it's illegal and mine's probably quicker anyways. My cell phone (Nokia N80) has Wi-Fi built in so when I go places I check to see if there are connections around me.

 

Indoors, i usually pick up 3-5 signals; if i go outside, i might see a few more. All the signals but one are secured. I guess my neighbors are pretty savvy.

 

Just 1, mine, with my wifi-finder Come on Dell, pick up the pace! (en route to my door now) I got it all setup with WPA. Just waiting for the doorbell....I think my neighbor might have one because she runs an IT business(basement full of pc's) but if she does it's not broadcasting. Or it doesn't have the range. I live in an older suburb, where houses are pretty far apart. As opposed to the new developments in my town, where houses are about 3 inches apart, with 7 houses on 1/2 acre.

 

I can pick up around 6-7 but i don't live in a city.

 

Right now, I'm picking up 6 including mine. All are secured except for 1.

 

I can pick up four other than my own, and only of of those besides mine is secure

 

i can get 3 networks including my own all are secured

 

I can get two at home--my own, and when I'm in my living room, I can get my neighbor's unsecured connection. In fact, my laptop (now deceased) would randomly jump to that connection when my own became weaker (apparently the plaster walls cause my connection some grief).

 

Heh. I've seen 12 at my girlfriend's apartment complex. It's really interesting in that all but one of them actually had security of some sort turned on (WEP, WPA... I didn't snoop a lot)

 

I get 3 on average but I have seen up to 5 on occasion. 2 of these wireless accounts are my own; the problem is that not even I can access them. I can connect to the router and can get wired internet but when I try to use wifi I just get the page can not be displayed message.

can anyone help me with this problem?

ucb9999

 

I live in an apartment complex where I can get 6-10, most secure, doesn't make sense to me, they're all plugged into the same network so you can just plug it into the network jack and you're on the same network with the same internet connection. At my parents house I get 3 (ours and two neighbors), but only two at a time depending on which end of the house I'm on (rural town, outside city limits, all 1+ acre lots)

 

i can pick up approx. 5-7 wireless conections, but about 3/4 of them are secured WEP, and therefor, i cannot physically connect ot them. i chose 3 because id say theres usually 2-3 that i can connect to unsecured, and maybe 1of them has only 1 bar. the other 2 usually have 2 or better, and when my router is on, its excellent service 4-5 bars.

 

I can pick up 2 at home, one secure(WEP) and the other not. When I'm downtown however there are 10 to 20 I can pick up depending where I'm at, and1/4 of those are unsecure.

 

i can pickup 3-5 but mostly 3. i have the only secure connection (WPA2). some people.

 

3 including my own. one is unsecured (SSID "linksys"... nice) one has WPA, and mine has WPA security

 

ahaha you got me there for a second

 

It was recently reported in The Age ( www.theage.com.au) that some Singaporean teen was caught free loading off his neighbour's connection, the penalty for which is a term of imprisonment. But he was able to get off by going into (compulsory) military service early.

 

I pick up one, my own, non secured. It wouldn't matter much if it was secured or not b/c I live out in the middle of no where, my closest neighbor is 1/4 a mile away or so. I get 5/5 signal anywhere in my house.

 

I get over four networks, plus mine. The neighbors are really funny here - or they think they are - some people set their WEP/WPA network's SSID to "Sorry" or "Yeah_You_Want_Some" as if people are dying to use their WiFi

 

I get around 8 to 10 wireless networks. All are security enabled, of course.

 

I've seen 21 at most at home. Now I "only" see 16. Security wise they are using the following protection:
WPA2: 3 (Of which one is mine)
WPA: 4
WEP: 6
Wide open: 3 (One with SSID "3com" and another with "dlink")

I live in a condo, so it's not that odd really.

 

i don't really know but i sometimes get up 10 and sometime only 1 which is mine of course.
i use lisky wireless
but use intergrated one for emergency...

 

I am getting 13 right now. I have SSID enabled on mine, with WPA running on it. I figure if someone is really going to spend the time to crack my wireless, the can go for it, most of the time the Xbox is all they would see.