Free Internet Temporarily?

[Scamula]

Does anyone out there know if those services that you see advertised online are real? The ones that say you can get internet dial up service for free or is it just a big headache? I currently have cable internet that I pay for (no use trying to scam people you're going to have to be dealing with for a long time) but I am going to be traveling soon and won't have access to a cable jack. However, i will have access to a phone line so I plan on using dial up. But I don't want to purchase a whole new dial up plan just for 6-8 weeks (the amount of time I should be gone).

Anyhoo, I would consider regular high speed dsl because you can get online from the road with that but that is not offered in my area.


What do you all suggest?

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

A while back say 10 years i used to be able to get free dialup from 9pm till 7am from local internet company TPG.

[Eulux]

if you'd be so kind as to answer a few questions for me before I give a decent response...

1. will you be near any major/small businesses, colleges, hotels, etc?

2. I know some people are retarded about saying where they are from and all, but perhaps you could give a relative location or zip code?

3. are you an experienced computer/network user?

and...as far as I know, there is no binding contract for the free dial up shit...I remember when earthlink, aol, and road runner used to offer a half off deal for the first 3-6 months...I'd hop to all three different ones to get the half off prices...unfortunately they don't do it anymore.

[headcase]

A few months back a local phone company were handing out CD's on the street offering "3 months free dial-up". I already had dial-up at that stage so I never picked one up, but it was too large a phone company to be a scam. How you would go about getting it now though, I dunno.

[Scamula]

if you'd be so kind as to answer a few questions for me before I give a decent response...

1. will you be near any major/small businesses, colleges, hotels, etc?

2. I know some people are retarded about saying where they are from and all, but perhaps you could give a relative location or zip code?

3. are you an experienced computer/network user?

and...as far as I know, there is no binding contract for the free dial up shit...I remember when earthlink, aol, and road runner used to offer a half off deal for the first 3-6 months...I'd hop to all three different ones to get the half off prices...unfortunately they don't do it anymore.



Being as though you're helping me out, I'll definitely answer your questions.

1. I will be near a college...in fact I will be on campus. But it is a gheto college keep this in mind.
2. My zip code is 23504. That's the Norfolk/ Hampton Roads area of Va.
3. I would say I am so-so when it comes to being an experienced computer/network user. I am great with the internet and most other computer programs. However, I don't know much about hacking and stuff.

I have a feeling you're going to suggest something semi-legal. Oooh, I can't wait. I haven't done anything bad lately and I am just itching to get it out of my system. :sgrin:

[Stone]

Most dial-up in Ireland is free to access. You just pay for the price of the phone call.

u/n: eircomnet
p/w: eircomnet
# 1892150150

I think that's the dial-up info.... Been a while since I've used it.

[ProfessorMolly]

its free yes for the service, but thier toll free number got shut down, so your phone bill might be charged long distance if its not a local number the new number for it is 712-432-5099
and the site is greatdialup.com, i used it, lol dial up blows, you can get it for free off of cell phones if you know how to use a data cable and some other minor things

[SayItAintSo014]

Google search "Odyssey Client" and you can use that to get onto people's wifi connections that don't have passwords. That's how I'm online now...:wiggle: Ha ha ha.



P.S. Damn I'm high.

[Eulux]

crappy colleges usually have a shit IT department...i you're gonna be in close proximity to a college, or on one...try and leach wireless...if they have a password...they usaully aren't too creative. run a dictionary if you can, try to brute force it...but most campuses usually provide internet to their dorm students...

[Heavy_'TalMeMan]

I'm no expert on the topic, but this article may prove useful.



How To Steal Wi-Fi.
http://www.slate.com/id/2109941/



If it doesn't...

UP YOURS!!!!:fing26:

[odin_dax]

Wifi is much easier on Windows...

Trying to use Ubuntu for Wifi cracking is probably the hardest thing a Linux user can do.

[themanwhowas]

hmmm. maybe because ubuntu is for linux noobs?

[Stone]

Hey, dissing Ubuntu isn't really fair, everybody's gotta start somewhere... you couldn't expect some guy who's never used linux before to jump straight in using Gentoo!

[odin_dax]

Yeah, at least I'm not using Windoze! Sheesh! :-P

Anyway, Ubuntu may be considered newb in the Linux world, but I have problems with the lack of documentation for certain issues. Since Ubuntu is pretty much like Debian, I wouldn't it diss it just yet. It's popularity has been really good for open-source and OS alternatives. Besides, there are a lot of commands the casual user wouldn't know about. Hell, it took me a few months just to find out about "nano" (instead of "vi") - I love nano! Then again, I wasn't researching.

Anyway, just looking at screenshots of other distros out there before I post this, they all look the same. Even distros that run on command line all act the same.

[themanwhowas]

i wasnt dissing anyone or anything. i was just pointing out that ubuntu is aimed at the nooby user so installing wifi on ubuntu is probably going to be attempted by a novice. maybe i should have added a :bukkake: or a :nana: or something to the end or something to lighten the tone

[odin_dax]

Haha. I was comparing distros, today actually, and I found no real significant reason to switch to another one. Gentoo sounds good if I wanted to learn more about command lines and such, but I'm just a casual user. I've done enough command line shit with Ubuntu server and setting up wifi, so I'm not that anxious. The only other distro I'm interested in trying out is FreeBSD. (The way I understand it, BSD is considered separate from Linux, but still under the UNIX umbrella - I don't know what that means, if anything).

[themanwhowas]

holy crap. i wrote an extensive explanation on the linux bsd unix relationships but it must have forgotten my login details and i didnt relogin. idiot. anyway, in brief:

Unix is used bu universities, NASA etc. i heard recetly that NASA rebooted for the first time in a few years. thats the joy of unix. its extremely stable. try not rebooting windows for like a day and the whole OS just goes a little crazy.

one day linus torvalds made his own OS based on the UNIX OS. UNIX isnt open source, so he couldnt just get the code and copy it. he basically (i assume) just used UNIX and wrote his own code to emulate the operations carried out by the OS. Imagine you trying to make a windows based OS. you would say hmmm. windows automatically boots into a gui login and does X when i right click over here so i will write some C code that does X when i click over here etc. To a certain extent you could make a copy of windows and as it is closed source the chances of you using the same code would be quite small but they patent ideas as they are gay so i suppose you cant but technically you could. Make sense? This would be an OS based on windows as you have taken the ideas and made your own OS.

Torvalds did the same for UNIX and made Linux. BSD did the same. they are both UNIX derivatives but are not derivatives of each other. they are like cousins, along the years they have probably taken ideas from each other but code them in their own BSD/Linux way.

Incidently, did you know that apple mac is a UNIX derivative too? thats right

To use an anlogy, its like open office/MS office. microsoft made a word processor, open ofice people coded a similar set of programs. Essentially thats all an OS is. a set of programs.

Fuck me this is the brief version. Pobably longer than the original

[Stone]

It would be practically impossible to write your own Windows. Windows is actually a pretty complex OS and you would most certainly be treading on Microsofts intellectual property and patents by trying to make a clone.

And, Linus didn't try to copy Unix, he made a better version of Minix, which is a Unix-like OS.

Apple's OS X (not 'apple mac', as that is the actual computer, and Apple's OS's prior to X were not based on Unix) uses Darwin as it's core which is a fork from BSD, which is a Unix like OS.

[themanwhowas]

i stand corrected