Originally Posted by wannabe
to my surprise, I've powered up my laptop a few times on various airlines and found an unsecured wireless network available. (just to be clear - these were airlines who supposedly don't have connexion / internet). These don't look like nodes from the ground, but rather stick around through the flight. I try to be good
so I have never tried to actually connect.
What you are seeing is someone else's wireless radio signal. I've seen this, too. First time, I actually tried to connect before realizing what it was. There's no there there, however.
Cheers.