[gitmo]

I did that at first. I figured as long as my personal use wasn't suffering I'd be glad to let my neighbors get some free bandwidth. My individual PCs were pretty well secured.

But I got to thinking about hackers driving down the road and using my access point to launch an attack on some company. Or terrorists using it for anonymous messages to their cohorts. So I enabled WEP, gave the network a unique name, etc. It's a bit of a hassle sometimes, but that's the price of responsibility.

[tdadams]

If everyone with a wireless access point would take ten minutes to secure their system doing what you did, and configuring a firewall to shut off unneeded ports and services, there would be absolutely nothing to worry about.

[rocksblues]

I bought my daughter a laptop and set up her for wireless and her pc kept interrupting her saying that a new wireless network was available.

Turns out it was our next door neighbor that had not changed or set up their wireless network.

I mentioned to them that I could use them to access the Internet and haven't had that problem since.