Re: [MLUG] Looking 4 mad cheap PCI wireless cards

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:

> That's because you're crazy.

No argument here, he may be wacky as a loon, but that doesn't mean he 
doesn't have a point.

> A better example than the wacky list you just produced would be this:  
> A woman who stands naked in her living room is fully culpable if 
> someone standing on the sidewalk takes her photograph.  If she didn't 
> want to be photographed, she should have closed her drapes.
>
> No one is talking about stealing anything.  The owner of the wifi 
> access point loses nothing just because someone connects to it.  It is 
> not like having a car battery stolen.

Taking a picture from the outside is --not-- a correct analogy to using 
someone's AP. In one case, you are not affecting the subject, in the 
other, you are.

If you connect to my AP, and are pulling mp3's across my line, you 
--will-- be interfering with my use of the bandwidth I pay for. I run 
into it with the roommate all the time, he's pulling downloads while I'm 
trying to play a game, and it's a bad enough experience that I'm 
considering going back to using the linux server as my gateway and doing 
traffic shaping on it.

-- 
Things that suck:
 Falling down an up escalator...

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