Free Wireless

Heh now this was an accident.

In Hamilton and bootup my laptop.  It starts up and MSN Messenger logs in (which is what I needed it for – to talk to a techie) and I start chatting.  Also open up e-mail and web etc.

Only after an hour or so do I remember that I never connected to the Internet.  I don’t recall plugging into a LAN or using the data card. I check and nope my Vodafone data card wasn’t how I was connected as I never opened it up.

So how am I on the Internet?

I check the wireless connection and sure enough someone has an unsecured wireless called “linksys” and as that is a default name I have connected to before, it connected me up without even checking.

So thanks to someone in Hamilton for an hour’s Internet.  It was an accident!