Are you sharing your broadband

digitaldr · 27-01-2006 10:02pm #1

Just wondering if many people are being naughty and sharing their broadband with their neighbours:D ? I share mine with my in-laws who live across the road - god bless my Belkin wireless router. In all there are 2 PCs, 2 laptaps, an Ipaq and
an xbox 360 sharing the connection. Luckily we're not heavy downloaders.

watty · 27-01-2006 10:07pm

There isn't anything naughty. You pay for a speed, contention and possibly a cap.

Mine is shared with everyone IN the house. That is bad enough

The Wifi for the two laptops has security settings etc such that it isn't used by everyone else in the street.

Karoma · 27-01-2006 10:09pm

It is naughty in the eyes of the ISP. (They'd prefer to screw two households ..)
Yes.

digitaldr · 27-01-2006 10:41pm

watty wrote:

There isn't anything naughty. You pay for a speed, contention and possibly a cap.

Just check out your ISP's terms and conditions, they definitely think it's naughty!

kaizersoze · 27-01-2006 11:32pm

Like most things, it's only naughty if you're caught:).

Creamy Goodness · 27-01-2006 11:33pm

yeh as watty said sharing it with people in the same house is bad enough (only my brother though) but it has gotten a bit more bearable since the upgrade

digitaldr · 28-01-2006 12:37am

kaizersoze wrote:

Like most things, it's only naughty if you're caught:).

and what are the chances of that!?

kaizersoze · 28-01-2006 9:45am

digitaldr wrote:

and what are the chances of that!?

Very slim. Unless one of your in-laws downloads something iffy and it's traced back to your IP address.

Are you sharing your broadband

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