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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Rick Buford wrote:

> 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.


Tell me about this when you find a case - just one case in the entire 
country - where someone is convicted or sued successfully for doing this.

In the example you gave, a wifi users is getting poor performance because 
he configured his system badly and his neighbors are accessing his wifi. 
That's his fault.  Proper configuration will yield better performance. 
His neighbors might not even know that they are accessing his network. 
It is very easy to do - just go to a different room of your house and you 
might suddenly be using your neighbor's network.  In fact, you might both 
have easily given your wireless networks the same name (e.g., 'linksys') 
and it might not even be possible for many users to tell whose network 
they are on!  Try prosecuting that.  Would the crime be "using your 
neighbors wifi on purpose?"  Or would it be "using your neighbor's wifi?"

This all seems ridiculous to me.  It is more ridiculous because you guys 
are usually on the side of freedom and against restrictive laws.

Mike
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