On Wednesday 31 October 2018 05:01:13 pm William Morder wrote: > My connection issues also used to get worse over time; then I would > reinstall my system, and everything would be fine once more, and only > deteriorate over several weeks or so. > A direct connection is not possible; wireless internet service is available > to tenants in my building (although I'm sure that, by now, in my > neighborhood, everybody's dog has cracked our insecure password). > Another interesting detail: I tried using an old Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron > live CD to boot the computer, and it also did not recognize my wireless > connection Hi Bill, This scenario is possible, but I’m not real sure on how probable... It’s easy enough to use Aircrack, or similar, to hack about any wireless. You’d need to actually dig up the exact details, but I believe the way it works is it piggybacks off an existing MAC/IP/Session (e.g. you) and then mimics your MAC address from then on. I’d guess the building’s router is setup to ‘punish’ high-traffic users (which it now feels you are as ‘you’ are now several people’s worth of connections) by throttling or blacklisting your MAC address. If that’s actually the problem, then possibly install Aircrack, Backtrack?, or whatever and change your MAC address once a day or so. [1] Hope that helps, Michael [1] The last time I even looked at this was 8+ years ago, as such I profess no real knowledge on how to do this, these came up in search and seem to concur with my memories... https://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php?topic=1340.0 https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/forum/change-mac-address-backtrack-0149937/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
