Comments on: Stop Piggybacking on My Wireless

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 11 May 2006 09:35:29 +0000

But how, if you don’t want to share, doe’s one block access to one’s wireless signal?

Richard

By: Himself

Himself — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 18:59:12 +0000

My laptop has BT as does my mobile; I take my wireless ‘DSL’ with me. At home is WPA-PSK TKIP + QoS + FileShare requiring IPsec. Go play somewhere else. :P

By: christen

christen — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:35:33 +0000

I make my connection available for others that happen by and I take advantage of the same when I am mobile.

Wireless shouldn’t be some holy commodity. It is media for the people and access shouldn’t be limited or privileged.

Wouldn’t it be a different world if this veil of fear that so many people find themselves under were lifted were lifted off of those who simply have not yet learned how to protect themselves online?

By: Griffith

Griffith — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:20:29 +0000

My wireless connection is open, but the signal isn’t being broadcasted and you need to have a particular Mac-Address in order to connect.

It’s not the safest choice, but it’s safe enough for me, I don’t think any of my neighbours are of any threat, except when they’re knocking on my door asking for help with their computers.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:22:18 +0000

It would be nice if you could throttle the connection for non-authenticated users. Someone who is using the connection for checking email or quickly finding a map on the web really wouldn’t need much bandwidth.

If it was easy to set aside 10kb/s for non-authenticated users, I think more people would allow others to use their connection. If every wireless network had this, the world would be a much more connected place…

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:43:40 +0000

I lock down my wireless connections using WPA, because the one time I didn’t do this I logged into my router to see that half a dozen people were using my connection for free (going off the size of the DHCP allocation table). I don’t mind the occassional fellow geek using my connection to check their email, but having all my neighbours downloading via a service that I’m paying for is a bit cheeky in my opinion.

By: John

John — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 01:34:02 +0000

I lock down all of my computers as if they were exposed directly to the Internet without a router, so leaving the wireless connection open is no big deal. It’s also a nice plausible deniability defense.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:23:25 +0000

I do use other people’s wireless, when it’s open and available. I also leave my own wireless connection open for others to use. I lock down my home network in other ways to prevent intrusion from strangers and never try to intrude on the wireless I borrow. I never do much more han check my email and maybe my news feeds on someone else’s connection.

I wish more people would do the same.