wireshark and a wifi antenna can do wonders for internet access as long as your anonymous as in no logins to facebook, email, or anything else that can ID you online that are in the tech communist group of friends that would love to assfuck you for accessing the wrong way. Hell if you can get a big antenna with a large db boost you could access legally through a public library even if it was over a 1/4 mile away with the right hardware. ;) We paid half the neighbors internet cost to get access, just didn't do anything as in downloading a lot of shit and kept the video streams like here to a minimum and we did that for almost 3 years and then rented to neighbors ourselves for years. Heck before we went wifi had a coax cable run under the lawn between our places and another time the store owner down the street had access to the big pipe that was once used for burglar alarms connected to the police station. The ISP had only dial up and we were using ISDN. Worst one was dial up in the boonies, has a 56k plan and a 56k modem but the lines were so old we barely could connect at 38.8 speeds and this was post 2000. Web pages were like molasses loading back then.
I've made my own antennas before. I used to have a parabolic, but bad roommates changed that. I have some external omnidirectional and a flat panel. But where I live is at tthe bottom of a hill on one side, next to a big river on the other side of that, then a huge patch of woods on a smaller hill on one side and a block of factories on the other. There's nothing around. My block is a tiny island of a handful of houses and 2 small, low capacity apartment buildings. There's just nothing there. I've checked with Wiviz.
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