Free wifi from neighbours..

These actions are easily stealing. You are stealing your neighbors bandwidth making their internet run slower and downloads take longer. It's common courtesy to ask your neighbor if you can piggy back on their wifi. To the original poster, you may want to edit your post before posting a wall of run-on sentences. It's very difficult to understand a single complete thought in the post.

so you should say thanks to your neighbour.. what about your neighbour reaction if he knows that you can access internet by his connection? angry or didn`t say anything?

Irrespective of any legal interpretation it is certainly morally wrong to use a neighbour's resources without their permission. There is no real difference between this and plugging your electrical appliance into your neighbour's electricity supply without them knowing. My neighbour used my wifi for a long while before having his own installed, but he did so with my permission which is a different thing altogether. As for old people and wifi, I am 63 years old but have set a very secure system with WPA2 encryption and MAC filtering.

hi, its a great one that you have a free WiFi connection from your neighbors,i wish i could also have it so that i can enjoy surfing internet using my new phone Samsung Galaxy S3,but i tried to look free WiFi and i was failed to look one free WiFi.

It may not be stealing in its technical sense, but it sure is not right either. I mean, if you we're in their position, I'm sure you also don't want other people to be using your resources that you pay for. Once our neighbor subscribed to a new Internet provider and I think they forgot that their wifi isn't password protected. I told them about it, just like an FYI and they were so thankful because they totally forgot to turn the password on and to think that all this time they know its protected. They did share the password with me and they said its okay for me to use their wifi for one computer only. I just thanked them and declined because I also have my own but of course I was touched.

I think it is not stealing for in the first place the owner of the wifi already knew before they purchase it that it has a password. Well, the owner maybe just careless or do not have any idea about the password or they do not have the idea to set the password.

You are stealing and you know it. You should stop this immediately and go to your neighbours and tell them what you have done and offer to make amends. They are paying for their connection. How would you feel if someone did that to you? I'm sure you would not be OK with it.

It's stealing I have mine set up so that you can't use it without knowing the password. Not everyone has theirs password protected.

I know several people who use free wifi for free. I don`t do it, but not for ethical reasons. I`m sure that all those companies where we hire the internet services have a lot more money than what we do and not all of it is well earned money.

We should consider it as sharing since your neighbor is not setting any passwords to his wifi. As an honest neighbor as you, you should advise him to set a password so that, his wifi will not be abused by anyone later. It can be related to legal issues. Moreover, if there is a quota of usage, then he has to pay for higher internet bill. I do hope his understanding of his privilege of this internet usage.

i don't think it is stealing. it is like they are giving it for free. it they would mind that someone might use their signal, then they must have put passwords or security key. or maybe they didn't realize that it weakens their own connection.

As I know it's stealing. They pay for it! And even if the door is open you can't walk into a house. You should ask your neighbour about it and maybe he will let you to use it for a very low price.

Hi shalloo. Well your post really made me laugh. I really love the part that you honestly accept the part that you are cheating. By the way your idea can become a part of the business model for the wifi service providers. May be you should recommend them about this. By the way if your neighbors are not rich enough I think you should stop doing it. But if they have lots of money, though I would not exactly say that I recommend but yes you can have some fun. Anyways have a nice day... ~SuperShames~

This is very much illegal in the United States. It's called piggybacking. Doing this is compared to walking into someone's house if they didn't lock the door. It's illegal. Just because they didn't lock the door doesn't mean they asked you to come in. Besides the fact that it's against the law, a felony in some states, there are reasons for you personally not to do this. When you get on someone else's system, there is a record that you did. If someone knew how, they could trace it back to you. Although they might not have a problem with you using the system, what about if someone hacked their system and caused damage? They might not be able to trace the damage back to exactly who did it, but they can trace it back to who was there. And guess who's going to show up? And guess who's going to get accused?

Most of my neighbors use passwords. So I am not lucky like you. But if there is problem with my wifi then I request them to give me the password for a day and they do oblige. I never keep a password and as I have the unlimited plan so I do not bother if someone else uses my connection.

Hi shalloo, the more people using the same internet connection or wifi would make the loading more lower. On account of this I of course would like to have passwords for security. I pay for it therefore I dislike my wifi to be shared with others for the slow loading would affect my net surfing. Yeah, it's not considered to be steal if one doesn't set password for their wifi. Off course yeah and it's mean, if one steals the password purposely and tries to get on line free I know there are people using certain device to do so. Happy posting

We have a system with our provider that means that others can access a small amount of our signal strength because if we are out and about with our laptop we can access small amounts from the signals of others that are in the area. We cannot access their accounts though, only the signals because all modems are protected by passwords. This didn't use to be the case when I first had broadband and I didn't think to set a password. One day an engineer came to fix a problem and showed me how to set a password, which I did then. I don't think it pleased our neighbours too much though! _Derek

Of course, it is stealing and it is just so wrong. No different from stealing time from your employer and surfing the web on company time. So wrong, so wrong.

I don't know. Perhaps from a technical perspective, you would have to call it stealing. You are using someone's service, that they are paying for, without permission. I personally would just go over and ask them if they would be willing to split the price, and let you use it. Hey I'll pay you $10 a month (whatever that is in your country), to use your wifi.

You are so lucky to have a free internet access! :) I used to have a free wifi from my elderly neighbor. Maybe she don't want a password because she tends to forget it. I don't think it is stealing but it is unfair for your neighbor who pays the monthly bill.