Do you ever connect to the free wifi at your local tea lounge and get assigned an address like 192.168.1.148? Are those 47 other users sucking up all the bandwidth, preventing you from reading that webpage or checking your email for that important message? Has the wireless AP simply crashed under all the load of those hippie mac users continuously reading LOLcats for no good reason?
This happens to me every so often and I use a simple, harmless, and effective technique to deal with it called an 802.11 deauthentication attack. I use aircrack-ng (available on a BackTrack live CD) to temporarily knock everyone off the AP to unclog its pipes and allow you to reach the internets. This blog post will walk you through how to do this yourself if you’re ever stuck in the same situation.
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