The Hack


The Pringle's can wifi booster is real and works startlingly well. The producers even used the right connector and put it in the right position. That seems too good for a commedy I wonder if the prop was sued elsewhere.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-a-wifi-antenna-out-of-a-pringles-can-nb/
Connecting that to the phone would usually involve taking the back off.
The Caravanning website is based on:-
http://www.buyastatic.com/
With the same byline:-
"Helping everyone get a fair deal!"
Incidently in computing terms a static is a static ip address so this site it was cloning has a double meaning.
Windows XP is insecure but is still used in places that really should be more secure.

I did not recognize the commands that were on screen.
alias being a Unix command and the C:\ being a Windows prompt.
Netgear routers do have a similar command which this might have been trying to emulate.

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