is it ok to leech wifi from your neighbour?

Ah now if you have a bandwidth cap and its nearly full its the only way to roll !

Leech is such a vulgar term, 'surprise sharing ' or 'excess redistribution' fits just as well.
Think of it as providing free service quality supervision.

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No, many people have limited broadband, and that could end up costing them a small fortune.
Should just talk to said neighbours, and offer to pay a fair amount etc.


You mean, you've figured out your neighbours wifi is easy to get into, right >_>

The fathers next door neighbor was at it for a while, for about 2 months the download speed dropped and he got 2 huge bills. My dad changed the password weekly and it still kept happening.

He only stopped when my dad called in and threatened to kick the ****e outta him.

I let people connect to mine. You find that we can all share alike

My brother in law works from home so has a pretty good broadband connection.
His neighbors, who he was friendly with mentioned that they were switching provider and would have no service for a while, could they borrow his while theirs was down etc.
He didn't mind, so gave them the password.

Since he works US hours though, his neighbors would be home eating up his bandwidth while he was trying to work in the evenings.
After a few months of this with no sign of them getting their own setup, he changed password.

Que herself from next door, "we're not able to get on the internet anymore, can you fix it"
His response, "oh weird, works fine for me, I don't know why you're having trouble"

I tried to train a leech to get me wi-fi...
total failure, just like my flee circus.

I've a few elderly neighbours who have real trouble understanding the technology.

One couple have a son in Australia and wanted to be able to chat online as it was too costly on the phone.

Another just wanted to alleviate the boredom of a long day seeing nobody by checking out the online world.

I went around to their houses and set them up on my internet connection and installed key logging software and recommended them to use their credit card as much as possible.

I'm all the richer of spirit for it.

I used to use dessid to get passwords when I had no data on my phone, this was just when I was out and about, leaching at home is a completely different story because its my data usage at home is much different than when I am out, heavy at hone and very light when out, you could end up giving your neighbour a rediculous bill or just eat into their bandwith which isn't cool at all.