As long as I’ve lived in my current apartment some unknown neighbor has been providing me with wireless internet. Their signal has been down for a couple days so I’ve been unable to get to my XGW email account which I can only access from my home computer. This outage has no effect on other authors here.
I apologize for not responding to correspondence I’m sure I’ve received the past couple days.
-Dan
Heh…or they’ve suddenly discovered wireless security and set their access port to not broadcast the ESSID.
I know! That would be such a shame. I was always grateful for their generosity for sharing before and never downloaded streaming media or did file sharing or anything else bandwidth intensive.
Bad boy Daniel. I hope you’ve been lying awake, wracked by guilt.I’m such a NICE PERSON that when I found an unsecured wireless connection I went and visited the (older) neighbour who had recently thrown out a box indicating they had a new PC and installed the security for them. I even deliberately made them type in the name and password with my back turned.He did seem rather mortified when I said he had an open network and that it could be either hogged or the traffic watched. I wonder what he HAD been downloading to cause that sort of instant mortification… ewwwh no, I don’t want to know.
Actually some people intentionally provide net to their neighbors and go so far as to list their hotspots on public indexes. Not to mention if someone publicly broadcasts an invitation into my home I’m going to accept it.
Yeah…some folks are perfectly willing to share. I think a lot of people just wouldn’t care one way or the other, but for the possibility of having their own traffic monitored or their household computers compromised. But there are ways to deal with that. Under the right circumstances I wouldn’t mind sharing bandwidth. But I keep my wireless network secured so someone would have to ask first. I just want to know what’s going on.