Update 1st of Oct. 2004 What goes up, must come down, and so did my obscure Vivato hotspot. Access was lousy slow today and the signal died in the afternoon. It was fun while it lasted.
My PowerBook went to sleep at home, connected to my WiFi network. On wake-up at the office (we’re WiFi-less), Mac OS quickly scanned the airwaves and offered me to connect to a certain Vivato network. What a … !? Well, OK I guess, go ahead and connect to this Vivato network.
It worked without a password, and obviously there’s no encryption either. It seems there’s a free hotspot somewhere in the neighbourhood, offering me a freeride at up to 110KB/s. That’s twice the speed of our company’s DSL! Why thank you :-)
Vivato is a large-scale WiFi service company. My unexpected freeride can mean either that the Parisian Vivato office is in the neighbourhood, or that they are working on a city-wide hot-spot like, they did elsewhere. WiFi all around the Paris sure sounds nice.
2 responses so far ↓
1 János // Oct 26, 2004 at 17:59
SHHHT!
Don’t brag about it cause’ they’ll take it away! :)
2 kit // Oct 26, 2004 at 21:04
Happened to me, too. A couple of months ago I was astonished to find that I was swimming into another wi-fi network right in my home apartment. Yes, it was blazing fast. I didn’t last.
That reminded me to strengthen the encryption of my office network as well.
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