Setting up your wireless router to keep the neighbors out.

[hunter]

1. I share my wireless openly, but limit the speed.

It was just easier that way when my kids were high school age and living at home, friends over all hours of the night.

It's not fast enough for netflix or anything, so there's never any heavy connections to it anyways.

I don't worry much about "security" either. If someone is downloading something "bad" I'm probably worse off if it's bad guys who cracked the code than if I just have an open system. I can say "I dunno" and it's totally believable. (Maybe I'll change my mind if SWAT kicks down my door, but until then...) Besides everyone knows if you want a random connection, like the old pay-phones, there are plenty of places with open and not so open wi-fi where nobody will remember you. Heck, you can go to the lobby of any hotel, ask them nicely for the wi-fi code, and they probably won't even ask you for a room number.

The U.S.A. isn't entirely a police state yet, you don't have to sign onto the internet with your own personal code. Besides, even though the NSA probably already knows who you are anyways, having connected the unique aspects of your internet devices and software to your name already.

If anyone needs a free wireless connections it's the neighbor who lost his or her job!

Seriously the entire nation ought to be saturated with free wi-fi, paid for by taxes. It ought to be as open as the sidewalks, roads, and freeways, fast enough for telephone use even.