letting people use your wi- fi for free

my neighbor that uses it is only 16 years old i dont mind her using it and i would never ask her and her mom to help pay my bill they do enough for us anyways. the neighbor that wanted to we dont really like all that much and we dont get a long that well. i dont mind sharing with people tho because i agree it will be the same price with them using it or without them using it and it is nice to help friends and family out.

I agree 100% with that. I don't mind helping out a friend or family when I can trust it'll be safe but also if they can't afford it. now a days they almost expect every household to own a computer and have internet. even to put applications in for jobs you need internet. I can't stand to see those who have the money for it just mooch off the rest of US either. that is one thing that just really gets under my skin.

Yes, though it is quite annoying to know if there are some families in the neighborhood who can afford too and yet they don't acquire because they take it for free anyway. That's a bit grrrrrrrsome, lol.

Having a separate connection is good so that your computers are safe! =)

yes leaving it open does scare me to that is why we have a separate connection that . is secure for our computers to use. I don't mind typing my password in for a friend to use either but they wanted me to just hand over my password when they were going to pay part of my bill but I just wouldn't see me doing that.

I have heard that it is a good idea to change the password every now and then. me personally I do not feel very safe using the Wi-Fi in a store or restaurant you really do not know who is logged in there and what information they are able to get from you.

Assuming that you are using a router then you could try using MAC filtering the restrict unauthorised access. MAC simply stands for Media Access Control and every piece of equipment, whether a computer, internet capable television or Xbox has it's own unique MAC address encoded into it. If you check the manual for your router it should tell you how to set up MAC filtering on your particular model. With MAC filtering enabled only the equipment that you have authorised will be able to connect to the network. This can be circumvented by what is known as "Spoofing" to emulate a different MAC address, but it requires the use of Linux and most people would have no idea how to do this, so the network should be fairly secure.

yes I am using a router. I will definitely be looking into that. Thank you. hopefully this will help to secure my network better

I had never thought about just turning it off when I wasn't using it. I don't mind my neighbor but when it comes to other unknown people using it doing God knows what it becomes an issue. maybe I should start unplugging it when it is not in use. I will say it is usually in use more than its not lol but still it would prevent it from happening. I've known people who use to occasionally turn it off then back on just to kick any unwanted people off and hope they stay off. my company for this has looked many times and haven't found any extra usage but that doesn't mean they haven't before or will in the future.

Its OK if you did not hear about this what can can i do in this matter but i have heard that some apps are available in the market which help to steal WiFi connections. But just leave it and good buy

the things that technology has developed still amaze me. i guess they couldnt sell it if it wasnt legal. i know i wouldnt be one to own that app because that jsut isnt me but if others want to then i guess that is up to them but i do plan to take your advice and change my passwords from time to time to avoid any issues later on down the road due to this thank you

i hate having an unssecure network but the only way to get my wii to work on the internet was to do it that way. we are still working on trying to fix it but after days and days of working non stop trying to get it to work it becomes over whelming and tie to take a break. an app to steal internet connections not that is something i have not heard of and i am not calling you a liar or anything i just cant believe that people have stooped that low and need to have an app for that. i dont see the point in that.

actually I use a different secure network for my computers that is just my Wii that we . use for YouTube sometimes and to play games online. there was no way to secure the Wii connection because it wouldn't work we spent a long time on the phone with windstream trying to fix this but that was the oonly option we had left.

yes i do understand the risks with an unsecure network but the problem relies in the fact that we tried and tried and tried to get a secure network to work with my wii. i spent days on and off the phone trying to work with them and make it work but the only thing that was left was to make it unsecure. i will say that we were smart enough to get another secure network and that is what our computer run off of so that it is harder to get to our information.

I know it's possible to have secure networks but for some reason it wouldn't work for the Wii no matter what we did. so now we have to connections.

yes we have a big problem with the internet connection running very slow because usually my husband and I are online at the same time and I am usually on my kindle fire also and then if my neighbor is out front she's online to so our connection does get very slow.

I didn't know that you can have a Wi-Fi connection that isn't unlimited. I thought it was all the same. you learn something new every day lol.

well here we don't actually need permission either that neighbor just has enough respect to ask us before she just uses it. here people steal that and cable without a care in the world.

this neighbor is a 16 year old kid really so i dont mind it to much. she uses it for school and for pleasure and she doent bother us and she does have enough respect not to visit any sites that she shouldnt be looking at. she is more like family to us that a neighbor. they use to have their own internet connection and i will admit they let me use theirs before. it has actually because a big joke in our house we just call her "our little por ch monkey" lol i have wanted to secure this network because i can always type the password in for her but my problem with that is i tried to get a secured network and for some reason for the wii they were unable to get anything but an unsecured network to work on it so i now have 2 connections 1 that is secure for my computers and an unsecure 1 for my wii and my neighbor and my kindle fire but i am going to switch that to the secured network at some point. thank you for that info i will have to look it up sometime to understand exactly what they are and what i can do to get them if it will help protect me to do so.

here in the states they also have places like that where there is free wi-fi i think even the libraries have a free wi-fi connection that you can use. the only problem with all that is the neighbor i do let use it they have no vehicle so they cant get any of those places but when it is someone i can trust using my wi-fi i dont mind letting them use it.