Goodbye, wi-fi!

All you can do is wander around while constantly refreshing the connection menu until you see one pop up. Good luck. It can be very frustrating to see it, and connect, and then have such a low connection that nothing works anyway. I used to piggyback at my old place but now we've got wireless. I'm always amazed that there is some stupid person who doesn't think to password protect their connection. I mean, you could really mess with someone if you wanted to. I usually just want to steal some of their internet, though, lol.

Computers will detect a wifi signal if it is located within some reasonable range. If the connection is protected, then you will see it, but you will never be able to use it as you don't have the right password. Some laptops, like mine, have a button that enable and disable the Wifi interface. On my laptop this button is F2. When the Wifi interface is disabled, then your computer becomes deaf and blind. You might have disabled the interface accidentally.

we have a similar problem.. mine is that i don't know how my laptop will detect a wireless connection.. like, do i have to tweak the settings or is it just automatic?.. right now, i'm using a broadband internet connection, so i really have no idea how a wi-fi will work (and if it will work) in my laptop if i will be in a wi-fi hot zone. i hope someone can answer your question (as well as mine).. =)

I have been picking up someones wireless connection for the past month or so. Hopefully I wont lose it since due to financial problems we had our internet service turned off. It sometimes is slow but atleast its free.