Hey all, i have been thinking about a way to get "free" internet. Let me know what you think about the idea, and any suggestions. okay, so on to the idea. A long time ago i saw a post by hak5, they turned a old direct TV satellite dish into a long range wifi device. A quick google search will yield results on how to build one. Where I currently live, there is a large amount of woods, but there are also alot of houses around the perimeter of the woods. The basic idea would be to setup a few of theses wifi satellite dishes, have them connect to open wifi networks and then use some software like Connectify Dispatch to combine all of the connections into one fast and free internet line. I assume you could do this in a city but instead of using peoples open home networks use Starbucks or Burger king 's free wifi.
Tl;Dr: Make long range wifi receivers, connect them to wifi, and then use software to make it into one fast internet line.
Let me know what you think, thanks.
lookin4 wrote
After reading your text I remain curious, but skeptic. Is it really that simple? Do the original operators of the WiFi get notice of this unintentionally share of bandwidth - or does the satellite act like a usual client? When they are reading the logs I am pretty sure they will recognize the increasing size of transferred data, which may result in narrowing down the range or discontinue the service.
Basically a good idea, but not literally radical, because someone needs to be a customer of a provider. It reproduces capitalism while the means of production remain in the hands of a few.
It is probably better (but not more easy by all means) to set-up mesh networks. Have you ever heard of Freifunk?