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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by londons_explore on Thursday September 28, 2023 @05:51PM (#37696371)
Usually doesn't matter... The other person will get frustrated and disconnect and reconnect a few times, and finally give up and read a book...
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by daveevad on Thursday September 28, 2023 @07:11PM (#37697171)
> The other person will get frustrated and disconnect and reconnect a few times, and finally give up and read a book...

That makes me really reconsider my past struggles with this form of Internet access.

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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by Arrath on Friday September 29, 2023 @12:02AM (#37699143)
Yeah...
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by cutemonster on Friday September 29, 2023 @05:07AM (#37701111)
Time to consider instead: walk through the plane, look angrily at the other passengers, one at a time, asking: "Do you use 192.168.x.y?". That can solve the problem
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by brookst on Friday September 29, 2023 @11:45AM (#37705920)
Or convince the flight attendants to including “MAC address spoofing” in the spiel about destroying or tampering with lavatory smoke detectors.
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Re:WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight by daveevad on Friday September 29, 2023 @04:39PM (#37709826)
Presumably there is a way to find out which other wireless client is impersonating another in a confined environment like an airplane.

A multicast packet might vary based on physical distance to the imposter?

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