Wi-Fi sidewalk

Wifi access from coffee "toad".

Not necessarily going to a luxury Wi-Fi café, many young people can still carry laptops wirelessly from the sidewalk around the coffee streets "toad" in the heart of Saigon.

The first stop is a cafe in a small alley opposite Zenta Coffee on Mac Dinh Chi Street, District 1, HCMC. Just calling the drink, he quickly pulled from the pair a "second hand" laptop worth more than 500 USD.

Just a few operations on the keyboard, he detected the signal to access Zenta's wireless network. On the screen, there are parameters such as strength, signal quality, transfer speed . and just a light click, the leisurely guy checks email, chat with friends and "surf "Newspaper web. He explained: " There is nothing strange about it, just" use "Wi-Fi waves from Zenta. Because Wifi waves can spread outside the bar space about 100 m, I" take advantage "to access from outside, anywhere, as long as it is far from that distance is okay ".

He also said this "discovery" is because a friend is making reporters "unveiled" in one time accidentally accessing Wi-Fi from the sidewalk, next to a luxury cafe.

Although the signal strength is only about 20-33% and the quality is "fluttering" but according to him, it is too "stubborn". After an hour of connecting with the world after all, a total of nearly 10 thousand VND for coffee and orange bottles, much cheaper than the cost of making "cool" people in a luxurious Wi-Fi bar .

Arriving at the bustling coffee street surrounding Ho Con Rua, the corner of the International Construction Site, just opened the laptop, not one, but three Wifi signal signals from nearby cafes and shops. Let's Window1, Windy, FPT Nokia at 5-11 Mbps speed, spoiled for choice.

Try going to Window1's network, after your mouse click, immediately the homepage of an e-newspaper has appeared. After a successful experiment, "switch" to Windy's network to reply to mail and find information from Google.

"Think about it, if there's an urgent need to e-mail customers or friends, it's not convenient for Wi-Fi coffee, just pull over at Lake Turtle, open the laptop. With multiple Wi-Fi waves overlapping like here, it is ok to "wave" any wave of the restaurant, so solve the problem! "- the guy laughed at the apple apple.

However, there is also a time when the effort to break down when trying to infiltrate FPT Nokia's corner of Ho Con Rua Lake or some networks like NETGEAR, fps-hcm-wl near Ho Xuan Huong Coffee Street . Since this is an internal wireless network of companies, when access requires visitors to declare the password. Of course this is the necessary safety measure for data security for the company.