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Title: Hotspots
Post by: Devz on January 27, 2004, 01:53:02 am

Does anyone know of any hotspots in brisbane and surrounding suburbs that they have picked up on?

Please share if you do.


- Devz

Title: Hotspots
Post by: MrFlibble on January 27, 2004, 02:29:33 am

http://www.iie.qld.gov.au/wi-fi/hotspots.asp (http://www.iie.qld.gov.au/wi-fi/hotspots.asp)

Title: Hotspots
Post by: Devz on January 30, 2004, 06:13:42 am

They arnt open hotspots are they? The\'re only to obtain qld gov info wirelessly correct?

Surely some people in Brisbane are wardrivers

Title: Hotspots
Post by: Anonymous on January 30, 2004, 07:41:18 am

Do you not have warchalking in Brisbane?

Title: Hotspots
Post by: Mitch on January 30, 2004, 07:48:47 am

Oops, forgot to login.
I work in Newcastle, the one in the UK, and I\'ve spotted warchalking in a few places, and since I don\'t use wi-fi on my Z, I \'borrowed\' a laptop off a friend and found a nice \'free\' internet connection.
People really should secure their networks.

Title: Hotspots
Post by: MrFlibble on February 01, 2004, 08:50:17 pm

Brisbane City Council have a few open hotspots around as well. Queen Street Mall for one but only port 80 last time I checked.

Title: Hotspots
Post by: jerbell on February 01, 2004, 09:01:39 pm

Quote from: \"Devz\"

Does anyone know of any hotspots in brisbane and surrounding suburbs that they have picked up on?
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You might find some at www.wigle.net. They claim to cover the world although I have only looked at Texas.]

Title: Hotspots
Post by: Devz on February 10, 2004, 06:37:32 am

Unfortunately www.wigle.net only contains GPS maps for the US.

I quote:

Quote

Query for networks
Fill in as much or little as you want
Addresses are for the U.S. only (2002 Census data)

So much for \"Worldwide database and mapping\"

But thanks for your input all the same jerbell.

- Devz