So here i am sitting in my room when my wireless is crap, it keeps crashing. So while i was searching for my own wireless signal i think i came across a neighbours unprotected signal, i thought let me try and connect to see if it works. It worked!
So here i am now using one of my neighbours wireless without them knowing. Is this wrong? or is it ok, until i get a new router? - Please suggest a good router.
Comments please.
2006-12-01 22:36:17 · 11 answers · asked by Conspicuously Inconspicuous 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Yes it's wrong. Your stealing, invading someones network yada yada yada.......
They left it open so while it is wrong it's their problem.
Linksys it the easiest by far to setup and not too expensive. The best I like right now is the Belkin wireless G+ with Mimo. Awesome range (I can get a good signal up to 300 feet away and mine is sitting on top of three powered sub-woofers so RF is through the roof with it).
2006-12-01 22:51:29 · answer #1 · answered by bofh772 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well technically it is stealing but i think what you are doing is OK because when you install a wireless connection the first thing that comes up is YOU HAVE TO PASSWORD PROTECT THE CONNECTION so how i see it is that its their fault for not doing so.
The same thing happened to me a few months back i was using someone else's wireless connection or so i thought and couldn't work out why anyone wouldn't want to password protect it.
I did my research and later found out that i wasn't stealing my neighbours connection but rather using the public roaming wireless Internet connection which anyone in that area is allowed to use so i wasn't stealing anything at all but using a service which was available to all.
This could be the same thing as you, you might not be stealing anything but using a service which you are in titled to.
But i have decided to buy my own router etc since then because it is faster and more reliable.
2006-12-02 06:49:43 · answer #2 · answered by Beautiful - 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A decent router? any of the Linksys ones mate, they are made by Sisco Systems, i've had one for nearly 2 years and its never given me a second of trouble. Have a look at e-buyer or dabs you'll find them there for reasonable money.
Using your neighbours wireless is technically theft, they're paying for it and you are stealing their bandwidth, to be honest i'd say it serves them right in a way - they should have more sense than to leave a wireless network open. Would you be as casual about it if they were using your electricity and you were paying for it?
2006-12-02 06:42:15 · answer #3 · answered by thecoldvoiceofreason 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have three neighbours with wireless routers, one of them kept knocking our own wireless signal out. We contacted BT and they said it wasn't a BT problem, we needed to sort it out between us.
While we had the problem, I used to regularly log into one of my neighbours network. They were unprotected and if I felt mean, I could even have changed his username and password so he wouldn't have been able to log into his own system.
We gave up on wireless and now use system Develo which uses the mains electricity circuit of our house to share the Internet. It works perfectly.
2006-12-02 06:53:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Umm its is wrong, but the question is do you have good morals. Generally they cannot trace you unless they can actually be bothered the ISP can trace you easily.
A good router is any netgear one preferably N standard or G at minimum.
2006-12-02 06:39:34 · answer #5 · answered by Jesus_is_31337 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's your neighbour's fault for not encrypting the signal (really easy to do btw).
Don't worry about it.
We use Belkin - no probs at all. And we also have a wifi hotspot reception booster ...
2006-12-02 06:39:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not sure of the legal aspect but it must be morally wrong, lol. as for a router I have found Netgear very reliable.
2006-12-02 06:39:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Technically ... it's sooo wrong ... but if they're running without it secured they have to bear some of the blame .... Dlink, Netcomm, Netgear ... just choose one
2006-12-02 06:38:47 · answer #8 · answered by deadkelly_1 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes its wrong..get yours sorted..would you like it if he was using yours
2006-12-02 06:40:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i dont know if its wrong ,
the other person might not care.
i use linksys.......its very good
2006-12-02 06:50:55 · answer #10 · answered by shsimon 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋