Thread: Sharing my wi-fi with a neighbour. Ramifications?
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Old 02-03-2006, 21:17   #14
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Re: Sharing my wi-fi with a neighbour. Ramifications?
One major problem, is that if you invite someone else onto your wireless network, it's no different to them plugging into your LAN.

More of a problem if you have other things on your LAN and consider LAN addresses as trusted, less so if you lock down the LAN the same as if you were running with no router.

It's the same issue when windows make accidental connection to another network - one reason I've set my software firewall now NOT to detect LAN address, as it seems to default them to allowing Netbios.
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