By Getting free Wi-Fi may be impossible sometimes even if you find yourself in an area where you should normally be able to enjoy the Wi-Fi benefits. There are many people who travel and spend a lot of time in hotels and places. If you’re among them, then check out this article since it will provide you with the necessary steps you need to follow in order to ger free Wi-Fi.
If you stay at a hotel and you want to check the local area for Wi-Fi, there are great chances for you to get to an unsecured network that is apparently public Wi-Fi that belongs to the hotel you’re staying at or the airport you find yourself in. What you’ll do next is to connect to that this local area for Wi-Fi. The surprise might come next: you cannot access the web because you don’t have an account. Therefore, you must be a paying customer in order to be able to use the network.
How can you change that? Well, it’s not that complicated to get free Wi-Fi. You need to know some things to understand how things work. Your wired and wireless interfaces’ unique addresses (that is MAC-Meda Access Control addresses) are filtered by the security of these access points.
Being burned into your intefaces, these can be changed from within your operating system in a way to match one of those clients that do get the paid service. So, here are the steps you have to follow in order to get free Wi-Fi.
1. First of all, this is how it works in Arch Linux. You’ll have to start by installing certain programs that will make it possibile for you to sniff traffic as well as to have your drivers set up to monitor traffic.
2. Therefore, install Wireshark. The package manager can also be used to install this program. Those who use Linux will have to download the source code and extract with (in terminal).
tar zxvf
3. Now change to the new directory and make sure to install using the following command:
./configure && make && sudo make install
4. The command you’ll have to use to change your MAC addresses and thus sniff traffic is:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down && sudo ifconfig wlan0 mode monitor && sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
5. The next thing to do is to run Wireshark. Once you start the program, look for a client IP that uses the AP. In order to get only HTTP traffic, you will have to type “http” in the filter box.
6. You’ll now have to wait till someone makes a request to the router. All those IPs that do not end in “.1″ should work. When this happens, you’ll have to click on that packet. Then you should find a MAC address in the hexadecimal box.
7. You can make that address yours if you use the following commnand:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down && sudo ifconfig hw ether && sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
Thus you’ll get past the filter when you connect to that access point and get free Wi-Fi. Check the video below to see how you have to look through these packets.