It’s not my service that you are using. I would consider it stealing if you were using my service. But then that
s why I encrypt and password protect my WiFi.
Why don’t you let the Coffee shop know what you are doing and let them decide if it’s OK with them. I don’t think that your “free” service would last much longer.
>>Why don’t you let the Coffee shop know what you are doing and let them decide if it’s OK with them. I don’t think that your “free” service would last much longer.<<
You’d be surprised. ;)
BTW, in my case it is not a coffee shop or “advertized” free wi-fi. I was just using that example.
BTW, you seem to be a serious “letter of the law” person. Do you ever intentionally drive over the speed limit by even one MPH. Do you always consciously try to come to a “complete stop with rollback” at stop signs and “free right turns on red lights”.
I’m a “spirit of the law” sort of guy. I’ve noticed that the two types have pretty strongly different world views.
Plenty of people just think it’s perfectly fine to share the internet they buy. They just think it’s the right thing to do. They can decide to keep it all to themselves. And they can put their router settings that way. Or they can decide to share it, and put their router settings that way. If they share the internet, they might not get their own internet as fast, but they’re saving their neighbors money, or they’re providing internet to people who live in areas that are not served affordably by high speed internet.
That’s just the way it works - some people want to share their internet, to give it away for free.