Have you ever used a neighbours broadband connection without asking them??????

[RTKangaMummy]

Cos I am at the moment

It is weak but it is working

dottydaisy: CALM DOWN,put your feet up and have a drink. The guilt is getting to you isn't it? . Just because you don't agree with someone's views, it doesn't make them boring. After all the thread says:"Have you ever used a neighbours broadband connection without asking them?" Obviously that itself suggests that ain't right.

there is absolutley no guilt from my side.
Are you always so patronising?

Are you always so outspoken?

To be honest i am just so bored of the same people taking the moral high ground and being so self righteous on every thread!!!

So you come on and throw insults around.

Very useful.

SueW, cheaper to leave the cash on the street than to take a taxi to the police station where to be honest, cash won't go back to their owners as there no way to prove that was YOUR cash. But to calm your fears I can say to my defense that I'm so idealistically honest that some people would brand me as stupid! .

i suppose id be annoyed if a neighbour came round here every night to watch my cable tv. wouldnt cost me anything extra, but no doubt i would still be peed off that she just didnt get her own.

Why not offer to contribute to the cost of your neighbour's subscription? I was already thinking of going halves with my neighbour (we're semi-detached). Or just give your neighbour a box of chocolates or a bunch of flowers every now and then? I wouldn't mind a bit if someone used my connection, as long as they didn't download massive films etc.

my dh drives around london and has been amazed that he can log on to the net via other peoples nets works why bother to use your phone skyp from your lap top on the move I am wondering if there are any real problems with this I dont mind poeple using our net work we pay a flat rate I think it is brilliant. Phone companies will go mad.

but nightowl that isn't the same! you aren't going into someones house to use their wireless internet.

they are broadcasting it INTO YOUR HOUSE!

i just got visions then of someone standing outside my window, nose to the glass, watching my tv lol! i dont know, i just dont like the idea of someone getting something for free that id had been paying for thats all. i wasnt saying its an awful thing to do, just that personally i wouldnt like it.

so what would you do if someone was watching tv through your window?

close the curtains?

if someone is using your wireless connection then do the same! secure it so they can't

but really starlover, wouldnt it annoy you? hey i was being lighthearted there, im not up for a row! what if you had a neighbour who you hated and found out they were using your connection? wouldnt you be annoyed a little? (disclaimer...i am not saying RTkangamummy's neighbours hate her, i mean hypothetically speaking). (prob spelt wrong btw).

In that situation though nightowl, you would have to be annoyed with yourself for not securing your network.

nope.. we leave ours open so people can use it if they want!

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AM NOT IN THAT HOUSE NOW

AND WE HAD 3 BROADBAND SIGNALS BEING BEAMED INTO OUR HOUSE

AFTER BEING SHAMED ON HERE I STOPPED AND WENT ONTO DIAL UP

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Am guilty at this moment in time. I'm at the mother-in-laws house and found six unsecured wireless networks to choose from when I fired up my laptop. I can also use my next door neighbours when I'm at home because he hasn't locked his down despite my husband offering to do it for him. Ours is locked down but purely from a security point of view. My mums is locked down also but wasn't until dh did it for her.

I think the television example is very good, my advice then would be not to leave it on outside in the street.