Chat Thread ver.2

[Nightshade]

And the worst part is, you have to buy it for 24 hours at a time. I'm not going to pay for wireless access for half an hour at the 24 hour per rate.

[K73SK]

lol, for those who stay in airports all day for their layover?

[Nightshade]

Probably so it seems like a good deal:

You're only paying $7 for 24 hours of wireless service. But you'll only be able to actually use it for 1-2 of those hours. -facepalm-

It's like those old AOL trial discs back in the day - 1000 hours FREE! (for 40 days).

The 1000 hours sounds like a lot, but even if you used it every hour continuously for the 40 days, you'd still only have 960 hours. It's just a marketing gimmick to make it seem like you're getting more than what you will be able to use.

Funny thing is, if I hadn't been about to board the airplane, I probably would have been able to circumvent the 20 minute limit simply by clearing the browser cookie the network was using to track how much wireless you had. So, I think that by getting the correct cookies cleared off my browser, I could just keep ordering 20 minute batches of wireless and the provider would have been none the wiser. Only reason it took so long to figure that out is because I kept assuming it was IP-based (obviously not; it's routing the wi-fi access via a LAN and proxy server).

[K73SK]

Unless they track the mac address and base your usage off that. Then you're screwed unless you have a spoofed mac on your phone (or whatever you're using).

[Nightshade]

I think it was based on browser cookies though, so by selectively clearing the appropriate cookie, I think that it would have worked.

I know that when I blocked the site from setting cookies altogether, the site constantly thought I was timed out, so I think there is a correlation. If it wasn't that, then I probably was doomed, and wouldn't have known what to do from there.

[Redhollowlives999]

I can't log on at all when I clear my cookies.

Wouldn't using Chrome's incognito mode simply remedy the whole situation? Assuming your theory is correct.

[Nightshade]

The problem is that clearing all the cookies makes it impossible for me to do anything.

What I need to do is to find the one cookie that controls the wireless access, and delete just it so the server thinks that I hadn't previously logged in.

[deadly virus]

disease is all I need

[Redhollowlives999]

Chrome's Incognito mode blocks all incoming and out-going cookies/cache/whatever. Seems like an easier fix.

[K73SK]

The problem is that clearing all the cookies makes it impossible for me to do anything.

What I need to do is to find the one cookie that controls the wireless access, and delete just it so the server thinks that I hadn't previously logged in.

Or edit the cookie to increase the amount of time before it expires