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Originally Posted by TheNorm
Sorry to harp on about this, but I still don't understand the reasoning. How can you steal something that is being given away?
If my neighbour waters his lawn with a sprinkler, and some of that water falls onto my property, am I stealing?
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I think there are a lot of people around that don't really understand about routers and that someone could be using their bandwidth.
I spent 3yrs using a router that was unsecured as I had no idea that it could be secured or that someone could easily use my bandwidth. Admittedly it was an old router and there was nothing in the settings of the router to easily secure it with a password.
When I bought a new router a few months ago the first thing I did was secure it as the new router had the option to secure it.
I have to confess that there have been a few times in the past when my internet has suddenly gone down and I've been in the middle of reading emails or ordering something and I have gone onto my neighbours internet for a few minutes, but I would never think of staying on it for any length of time as I don't think it's right.
Lyn