OK, here it is, days later I'm updating again.

On Thursday, I was supposed to be travelling down to Sydney, to see the guy at the Internet Cafe we provide data too. We need to change the arrangement, so that we're not getting stuffed around having to run down here everytime there's a problem.

We were then going to go and see a guy in the PowerTel building I used to work in back in 2001, and try to work out consolidating our lines/accounts etc.

Something happened, and we ended up postponing all this until next Thursday.

So I ended up getting up about 10am, watched tv most of the day, while mucking around finishing setting up the support laptop.

I had the wireless device plugged in, not that there is any wireless networks around, I didn't even have an aerial, so as a joke, I put a paperclip in the hole.

About 5pm, I remembered I was supposed to ring a lady today, I was supposed to go and see her tomorrow, I think her phoneline is stuffed. I called her, left a message.

I got off the phone, and noticed the wireless adapter falling off a wireless lan. What the?

I went and did a site survey, and there was indeed a wlan around. I moved the wireless device around a bit, found a better position where I got better reception, and it reconnected.

I tried to get an IP address with DHCP, but there was no answer. I looked a bit closer, and saw that the wlan has WEP enabled.

I spent hours wandering around trying to work out what direction the signal was coming from, it's really flakey, sometimes in one point it will be really strong (80% I saw at one point) and then it will just disappear, and you can never find it again at that position.

I tried looking for ways to crack WEP, but nothing supports this device (Gigafast USB wireless adapter, based on the Atmel at503a or whatever).

After hours of mucking around, I gave up and went to bed.