I’ve finished up my little bag of travel tricks for some secure internet this summer. All of the electronics are in the bag, configured and ready to go, with the main connections coming out the top.
The bag contains an Alfa R36 repeater and range extender for my Alfa Awus036H long-range Wifi antenna. This unit acts as my primary encrypted router with a non-visible SSID and it’s connected to my netbook via Lan cable and also connected to my TP-Link wireless N150 travel router.
Here’s how it works: I fire up the netbook which talks to the R36 via browser and it presents all of the hotspots that my long-range antenna can find. I then peruse them by signal strength, lack of encryption and name (you know, netgear, linksys ;-). Once I make my choice the bag of tricks hooks up to that connection and presents a sweet little hotspot to me called nano that all of my devices are ready to talk to.
The really nice thing about this setup is the security. I sincerely doubt any punk script-kiddie trying to hack an unsuspecting laptop hooked up to a Starbucks or motel connection could break through two additional levels of passwords and encryption!
Too complex for my feeble mind to catch hold of. You need to be doing something in the computer world.
Been there, done that, now I just play…
It wasn’t fun making money doing what you love to do?
Not really, too much pressure to get it right. Now if I screw a program up, who cares? :-)
Besides, thievery is a standard practice in the computer world. You write it and IBM steals it, or Apple, or Facebook… Glad to see you’re ready for Summer Vacation. If you make it CA way we have a guest room for you and Steph.
Thanks Skoge, it’s a long summer and a visit to your neck of the woods would be sweet. I’ll work on it!