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Post Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:20 am   Post subject: Video wanted: wrap CAT5 around your cellphone Reply with quote Back to top  
Anyone got a link to that video which shows a guy wrapping CAT5 around his cellphone to improve his wireless network signal? My Google-fu is weak this morning and I cannot find it.

(Yes, I know it's a hoax; I'll be sending it to a gullible chum of mine.)

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Post Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:45 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
http://www.break.com/index/how_to_boost_wireless_signal.html

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Slashdot poster: I don't use commercial applications. I don't use programs for my security tests. I do the tests myself everyday.

Slashdot reply: You don't use programs? What, you put the cat-5 in your mouth and try to *taste* the intruders?

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Post Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:25 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Got a good laugh out of that one.
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:29 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
What...you mean it doesn't really work? Blush SmileShocking Smile

Guess I should stop looking fer some long Cat5 cable. Would Cat6 work better? Wink SmileBig Smile

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Post Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:42 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Here is the YouTube link for a bit of extra "credibility":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8Wi7XRXCA


I'll have to send this to some people at work Wink

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Post Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:09 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
IAmMarauder wrote:
Here is the YouTube link for a bit of extra "credibility":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8Wi7XRXCA


I'll have to send this to some people at work Wink


would that be the one where he says... electrical tape conducts electricity Shocked Shocked

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Slashdot poster: I don't use commercial applications. I don't use programs for my security tests. I do the tests myself everyday.

Slashdot reply: You don't use programs? What, you put the cat-5 in your mouth and try to *taste* the intruders?

An infinite number of monkeys pounding away on keyboards will eventually produce a report showing that Windows is more secure and has a lower TCO, than linux.
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:23 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
fear_nothing wrote:
http://www.break.com/index/how_to_boost_wireless_signal.html

That's the one. Ta.

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Post Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:57 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
BamZipPow wrote:
What...you mean it doesn't really work? Blush SmileShocking Smile

Guess I should stop looking fer some long Cat5 cable. Would Cat6 work better? Wink SmileBig Smile


I am think this might work.
http://bp1.blogger.com/_jM0PTDwWArQ/Rpj0G07YrAI/AAAAAAAAANk/ZV-gX4z_SV0/s400/cat5.JPG
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