WiFi users. I'm interested in getting Wifi but am worried about nefarious people messing

[hunter]

5. I got tired of family and friends asking for the wifi password so I leave it open.

Especially when my kids were teenagers and our house was always full of people and their electronic gadgets. (They're in college now.)

I'd walk to the kitchen in the middle of the night and wonder who was sleeping on the living room sofa. Which was the same as the house I grew up in, actually. You never really knew who'd open the bathroom door while you were waiting there. I remember banging on the bathroom door one morning thinking one of my siblings was being selfish, and this little old guy who looked like Gandhi opened the door, stepped out, bowed slightly and shuffled off down the hallway...

So for a few years now I've left our wifi open for anyone -- friends, family, neighbors, nefarious people in black SUVs parked on the street outside...

The computer I do my business on is hardwired and chokes off the wifi whenever I'm doing any heavy transfers. I've got no limits on data usage because the DSL connection I have ain't that great. It was originally a dry loop direct to my ISP long before AT&T even offered DSL. I think the line is now a tiny splinter in AT&T's foot, and they'd much rather sell me DSL direct, but I like being a splinter.

I kicked Comcast out of our house a long time ago, before digital cable, back when it was just 57 channels, nothing on...