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McDonalds wifi
I have not read anything here about McDonalds wifi. Forgot name of company providing it, but they support IHOPs, airports, hotel chains, mcdonalds, etc. I read up on them a little, do not understand all the technical :? stuff but sounds like a cool set up to me. Yea I know you are going to think ewwwwww McDonalds. I believe the Grilled chicken sandwiches are very good/Weight Watcher friendly and a salad instead of fries. Must be ok since wife has lost over 100 pounds in a year and we make regular trips due to indoor "R-gym", much cooler version of the playground in the winter months for the twins.
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Krystal restaurants have WiFi in some or all of their restaurants. They have about 200 or so stores.
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Denny's is starting itnationwide too.
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good to know
even I a lowly "wannabe" can guess it ain't an option to whoop the truck into a Dennys or McD's but has anybody tried the services yet?
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Actually, you will find in some areas of the country that there are in fact Mickey D's, BK Lounges, and other fast food restaurants as well as motels that actually do have truck parking.
The only other thing I have to add is this: It has been my experience that if you log on to an unsecure and non-wep wi-fi net, it would be best to have some good anti-virus/anti-spyware and firewall software in place. I have logged on to a couple of motel nets and been probed a number of times by hackers and others trying to drop little programs on me. This is not an advertisement for these people, but my Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite has done what appears to be a pretty good job of blocking the nonsense, and I have swept my laptop with other software and not found anything amiss.
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Re: good to know
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Originally Posted by okie
even I a lowly "wannabe" can guess it ain't an option to whoop the truck into a Dennys or McD's but has anybody tried the services yet?
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There are actually quite a few McD's with truck parking or located within easy walking distance of truck stops.
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hehhehee yeah its been a known fact for a few years that some including me would park next to a hotel and get free internet... most hotels the username to login is GUEST... i only see one problem with them doing this is someone doing bad things can park across the street and use the internet and it will come back to the hotel for the illegal stuff they did.... I find alot of free internet everywhere I go... I don't do the illegal stuff though, I just pointing it out to them as a security threat to there system.. I find alot of home internet the same, cruise around town and find alot of free intetrnet from unsecure wireless home networks which is what all these places are setting up for its customers, all I see is a open world for hackers and illegal stuff...
If you know anything about networking and find unsecure networks in your town, be a freind and teach them to use a WEP Key to protect there network from uninvited guest from using there system... its the least you can do... if not, surf there web for free and download all your illegals....
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What's the big thing about an unprotected network? I never WEP mine.. it's my donation. The bigger problem is your computer, is it M$? If so, chances are its already compromised. If you want some security, then use Mac OS X or linux...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bikeman
What's the big thing about an unprotected network? I never WEP mine.. it's my donation. The bigger problem is your computer, is it M$? If so, chances are its already compromised. If you want some security, then use Mac OS X or linux...
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you don't have your networked secured, where do you live, i want to park across the street and download japanese child porn and then post it on the web so the FEDS will think its you, came from your network from your house so who will they blame, but before they bust you i will blank your hard drive so they can't prove it was you and I can do all this from down the street, mac or linux hehehehehehe can a hacker crack them ??? well HELL YES, they even got unix down, until you secure it your asking for someone to toy with you..... let them in the door is wide open.... oh where is your open door I will be right over...
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