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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
Posts: 7287
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If the idea of going to jail doesn't bother you and you are looking for some free broadband, then The Slurpr is the must-have device for you.
Invented by the Dutch hacker, Mark Hoekstra and his partner Boris, The Slurpr was created as a WiFi router access point that aggregates up to six unprotected 54Mbps WiFi channels into one "free" connection. While this may not fly in most countries, what will definitely not fly in any country is the inclusion of a feature that allows the user to crack 64/128-bit WEP.
If you have the cajones to risk the jail time, you can pre-order the unit on Hoekstra's website, GeekTechinique.org. The Slurpr definitely doesn't suck, but the $1,347 price tag sure does.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
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$1,347!?
What the fuck is he smoking?
If you have $1,347 to spend on his highly illegal hardware, you have $1,347 to spend on a LEGAL broadband connection.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classicâ„¢
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
Posts: 7542
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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At about the $50 a month I pay for broadband that would be about 2 years, 3 months worth of legal Broadband. Not worth the risk.
$1,347 / $50 a month = 26.94 months.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
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And in 26 months, there will almost certainly be ways to stop Slurpr.
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Sock
Title: Master Fornicator
Joined: Mar 12 2006
Location: The Skies Above
Posts: 989
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You mean in 26 months the price of a broadband connection will go down further?
I'm sure there will be plenty of updates to the...Slurpr, or whatthefuckever it's called to keep it in working order.
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Murdar Machene
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Title: bimmy
Joined: Nov 06 2005
Location: the black warriors turf
Posts: 3207
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this thing slurps cocks
also wireless sucks for gaming
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Tishwitch
Title: PornStarExtraordinaire
Joined: Jul 01 2006
Location: Winter Wonderland
Posts: 1409
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Murdar Machene wrote: |
this thing slurps cocks
also wireless sucks for gaming |
Not if you're using a good wireless connection.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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At this point in time, Wireless will never be on par with wired networking.
802.11n, the newest wireless standard peaks out at 200Mbit/sec. (That's "MegaBITS", not BYTES. 8 bits = 1 byte.)
So the fastest wireless connection you can get is 25 Megabytes per second.
Compare that with Gigabit wired in full duplex mode:
2000 Mbits/sec, or 250 Megabytes per second.
Ten times slower. You want to see the difference? Just transfer a 1 Gb file from one pc to another on the same network using both wired and wireless.
Now if only we could all afford T5 lines into our homes to take advantage of those speeds for online. (T5 or DS5 has a upload/download speed of a consent 400.352 Mbit/s, or 50.044 Megabytes per secend.)
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Sock
Title: Master Fornicator
Joined: Mar 12 2006
Location: The Skies Above
Posts: 989
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For intertrons, wireless is fine, since most of our connections aren't pushing 25mb/s down.
I'm firmly entrenched in the wired crowd, though. Don't look at me like that.
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Murdar Machene
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Title: bimmy
Joined: Nov 06 2005
Location: the black warriors turf
Posts: 3207
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Whenever I try to play Mame with someone and their connection is fucking up, the first thing I hear from them is "STUPID WIRELESS"
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classicâ„¢
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
Posts: 7542
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And I'm the one usually saying it. If I could have ethernet cables coming up to my computer, I would. But my mom won't let me move the cables up because it "looks ugly", so I'm stuck with a suckass wireless router.
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Chrisby
Joined: Mar 31 2006
Location: Where my computer is.
Posts: 1262
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I use wireless....from my neighbors.
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