![]() He also wrote the USA's most-saved article of 2021, according to Pocket.Ĭhris was a PCWorld columnist for two years. Beyond the web, his work has appeared in the print edition of The New York Times (September 9, 2019) and in PCWorld's print magazines, specifically in the August 2013 and July 2013 editions, where his story was on the cover. With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. These locations can be *any* MAC address, e.g., location1 = MAC address of starbucks on 100 main street location2 = MAC address of spouse2's boss location3 = MAC address of pretty neighbor across town etc.Chris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. Lastly, spouse 1 would ensure the spouse 2 was broadcasting the SSID.Īny lookup to the Google database will tell spouse 1 "if" and "when" spouseĢ was at location1, or location2, or location3, etc. Spouse 1 would also enter the MAC address(es) of suspected lovers' homes which spouse 1 would get by driving by the suspected homes. Spouse 1 would enter the phone MAC address of spouse 2. I don't have the skills, so I declined, but, under FriendDA, we discussed. ![]() That is, all you need are two real MAC addresses and one (fabricated) signal strength, and you can find out if two people are in the same location at any point in time from anywhere in the world.Ī friend asked me to consider working with him to write a program to track spouses. Here is a sample request with very many *optional* parameters: Most of the parameters are optional, but essentially if you know the MAC address of the person you are tracking, and you know the MAC address of the location you want to check if they're nearby, then you just make up a signal strength, and Voila! So, yeah, it took *multiple* phone calls, where Comcast effectively lied to us (where is Rod Speed when I need him to proclaim a lie?) but we got the "introductory rate". I wrote *everything* down (that's where an automatic call recorder excels, because you can play back all their crazy package names!) and then we called back on the original Comcast account and argued with them until they gave us *those* introductory rates. Then they gave me an *introductory rate*, which was *lower* (by a lot!) than the rate they had just told us they couldn't give us. I looked up on Zillow a house for sale in the nearby area of the kid and called Comcast as a new owner of that house, giving them a bogus phone number at that address and they told me that the house I chose hasn't had Internet for two years (lucky me). If that's true, then they said they don't lower your rates back to the original rates. I was told recently that they *stopped* doing that in October of last year. One has 50Mbps service from Comcast, as I recall, and she gets almostīTW, a trick I learned the hard way is that after 1 year of the "introductory rate" from Comcast, they raise your bill - and it used to be that if you called them, they'd automatically give you the introductory rate again. I have a couple of kids in graduate school and where they live they have tons of others nearby. TIP: Choosing the best WiFi channel using iPad Googling, I found this which explains for them how to run a WiFi scan on the iPads and iPhones that they own: My only question is how do I get them to run a test of the WiFi frequencies in use where they are. So they're running the *wired* tests using the iMac but I'm trying to get them to run wireless tests and they're not technical people. They are on iOS with iPhones and iPads & they have a couple of MacBook Pros which apparently don't have an Ethernet port (nor do they have the adapter) but they do have an iMac which does have an Ethernet port. ![]() They haven't told me what they get wired to the router (a WRT54G, which only has channels 1 through 11) but I told them to scan for WiFi signals (to see if they are clashing with their neighbors). With an iMac wired to the modem, they're getting 29 down and 6 up (sometimes 1 up) at around 38ms ping times, but at the various wireless devices they're only getting half that. They have iPads, iPhones, Macbook Pros, and an iMac. They own their own Motorola Docsys 3.0 modem from Costco. They're on the $56.95 25Mbps "Performance Internet" plan which advertisesĢ5 Mbps down & 5 Mbps up. What is the best way, nowadays, to scan for wireless frequencies given an entirely Apple household of iPhones, iPads, Macbook Pros, and an iMac?Īn Apple-only friend (who lives in the boonies) called just now from another state with Comcast Internet problems at home.
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