Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s WiFi
Posted by Chris Leckness on 10/25/06 in Rants, Wifi / Bluetooth
It’s against my personal ethic and moral code to snatch up my neighbor’s WiFi, but many people feel differently about the subject. It ranks up there with stealing stories or driving drunk, people do it, but that doesn’t make make it right.
I have a problem already trying to keep my neighbor’s WiFi out of my house. I had to set my wife’s laptop up to ignore it since it’s stronger than my own in some parts of the house. She is trying to print to the Wireless network printer and it’s not working, so I look, and she is stealing the neighbors WiFi by mistake.
In a story on Yahoo! today, the writer talks about neighbors riding a free wave on your WiFi. Check it out, its a good read.
“If loading a web page or downloading an MP3 suddenly moves at glacial pace, your next door neighbor (or some kid parked in front of your house) may be using up your bandwidth. To be sure, you can check your router’s logs (accessible through your router’s Wi-Fi manager software) to see what other computers are linked up to your network.”
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