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Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert (www.businessinsider.com)
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Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert::Children have been found sitting by the front door of random homes, desperately trying to tap into the owner's WiFi connection.

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[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We should be telling kids about how simple it is to build an antenna, how there are many types for different situations, and how directional antennas work. Buy them a copy of the ARRL books https://arrl.org/ and you'll potentially inspire an engineer.

[–] shrodes@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Back when I was a kid I got into building a cantenna and aircrack-ng when my parents shut the internet off every night. Wasn’t addicted to games, just found it interesting and entertaining. Also came in handy in the days of shaped internet when you ran out of GB for the month.

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You built your own wifi antenna?

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A cantenna is typically a regular wifi antenna with a can around it to provide both directional control, and signal amplification. They are actually fairly simple things to cobble together.

[–] sv1sjp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

'73 de sv1sjp