5 Nov
2018
5 Nov
'18
9:38 a.m.
On Sunday 04 November 2018 15:50:32 Michael wrote:
On Wednesday 31 October 2018 05:01:13 pm William
Morder wrote:
Yeah, I was wondering if it was something like that. And I am definitely
a "high traffic user", at least sometimes (like when downloading Debian
images, or installing packages, etc. And I use Tor whenever possible. But
most of the time I am actually doing pretty ordinary computer stuff, and not
downloading porn or streaming Netflix, etc. I used to get kicked off the
network every couple hours.
I use the macchanger package to change my mac address pretty much every time I
have problems, so I change it sometimes several times a day, but other times
I might keep the same mac address for several days. It depends on whether I
hve connection issues.
Also it seems that something was changing my settings in
my /etc/network/interfaces files; but I'm not sure yet if this was my fault,
or something else at work. I'm troubleshooting now.
Thanks for your observation. At least I'm on the right track with changing my
mac address.
Bill
My connection issues also used to get worse over
time; then I would
reinstall my system, and everything would be fine once more, and only
deteriorate over several weeks or so.
A direct connection is not possible; wireless internet service is
available to tenants in my building (although I'm sure that, by now, in
my neighborhood, everybody's dog has cracked our insecure password).
Another interesting detail: I tried using an old Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
live CD to boot the computer, and it also did not recognize my wireless
connection
Hi Bill,
This scenario is possible, but I’m not real sure on how probable...
It’s easy enough to use Aircrack, or similar, to hack about any wireless.
You’d need to actually dig up the exact details, but I believe the way it
works is it piggybacks off an existing MAC/IP/Session (e.g. you) and then
mimics your MAC address from then on. I’d guess the building’s router is
setup to ‘punish’ high-traffic users (which it now feels you are as ‘you’
are now several people’s worth of connections) by throttling or
blacklisting your MAC address.
If that’s actually the problem, then possibly install Aircrack, Backtrack?,
or whatever and change your MAC address once a day or so. [1]
Hope that helps,
Michael
[1]
The last time I even looked at this was 8+ years ago, as such I profess no
real knowledge on how to do this, these came up in search and seem to
concur with my memories...
https://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php?topic=1340.0
https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/forum/change-mac-address-backtrack-014993
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