International Space Station gets WiFi, 404 errors very likely
By Darren Murph 
posted Sep 8th 2008 7:26AM
posted Sep 8th 2008 7:26AM
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posted Sep 8th 2008 7:26AM
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*attempts to use can-tenna to steal free wifi
In space, no-one can complain if you switch to 40MHz channel-bonding mode...
Just in time to record "prison break"
wireless...blah...bad ping times...they should stick to gaming on the hard wired lan
Porn in space, The final frontier
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We meet aliens for the first time only to find out they've been piggy backing the space station wifi connection and watching our porn...................the dirty bastards.
send em a opy of cod4 and xbox 360.
Thanks man I needed laugh... That was epic...lol
Here's to hoping that the SSID is something like "SKYNET"
haha that would be the best!
plus one internets for you good sir
Who's going to win the prize for first successful connection from earth to ISS?
They are really trusting the ISS wifi to a Netgear AP that seems odd and kinda cheap, you would think they would want something a little less consumer grade and go with something enterprise I.E. Cisco.
Maybe they wanna reset it every day! ha
What are the chances of someone trying to spoof some illegal P2P to the ISS for giggles?
I'd love to see the RIAA try to sue for that!
Technically they're not in any countrie or even on earth soooooooooooooooo let me think here..........
they gonna sue em but they could fight back and tell em to sue the aliens too that have been watching through the little windows.
Actually a countries territory legally extends upwards to infinity so it just depends on what country they happen to be over at the time.
They'll need to put some encryption on that, otherwise you'll get UFOs hanging around outside stealing the wireless lol. They've spent years looking for aliens, sending out radio signals, but this is what will tell the aliens to come, they'll see porn. Would you travel millions of miles to locate the source of some dodgey radio reception?
Comcast better not bitch about the bandwidth overage. It's outer space, for Chrissake!
huh....WIFI in space. Ya know. With a directional sat dish and one jacked up WIFI card you might be able to...ummm I guess the term would be Warorbit. :-D Look I just collected 32,000 access points in 5 minutes. GPS would be a problem to plot them on a map though :-D
I hope they don't play too much CoD or WoW!
pleasssssssssse seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!!!!
they should try and go to one of those ip address locater websites
It'll just say "Houston, TX"
ut3 is awesome :)
The ISS doe not have normal internet connection. Astronauts cannot just browse any website that they please. Pages must be requested or prepared for the crew, then mission control sends the packet up on the TDRSS network of satellites. it is more of an internet protocol network, not the real deal.
spoil all the fun, whydontcha...
I'm posting this phone my iPhone via vwi fi...
...from space.
I wonder if they'd enable WPA2 to avoid WARDriving (or should be WARPiloting?)
Probably safe from wardrivers....
Probably.
this is an awesome story! bravo!
Since everything has to be sent from the ISS to Earth wirelessly anyways I imagine ping would be horrible.
Depends on how much do you like being fodder?