[vox-tech] [SPAM?] Re: Neighbor's printers

[Richard Harke]

I have never connected to their access point. My printer is connected to my
wired network so there is no chance they could
connect to it. I didn't try to print the neighbor's printer and they stayed
on my menu for only a minute or two.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote:

> Can you elaborate on that, or provide a link? AFAIK you have to, at some
> point, configure your printer to use your access point (router), which they
> should find difficult to do (certainly unintentionally). Alternatively, you
> could have set up their network access point as an alternative to your own
> on your computer, and your  computer could have connected there instead of
> to your own access point if it had difficulty with your AP this morning.
> Once identified by your computer as usable printers, that information might
> be retained even after your computer reconnects to your own network. So,
> are they usable?
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> Tony Cratz <cratz at hematite.com> wrote:
>
> >On 04/23/2012 12:41 PM, Richard Harke wrote:
> >> This morning when I went to print something, the print menu showed
> >two
> >> extra printers that apparently belong to a neighbor. Since my wi-fi
> >is
> >> secured with WPA2, if even if the neighbors isn't, how is this
> >possible?
> >
> >       When trying to print, what are you using? A desktop or a laptop?
> >       And is there a WiFi card on the item (laptop?).
> >
> >       If so you are receiving the info directly to your laptop without
> >       it going through your router.
> >
> >
> >                                                       Tony
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