Setting up your wireless router to keep the neighbors out.

[hunter]

6. It doesn't seem fair if I'm in any greater jeopardy than a fast food place...

AT&T and Comcast are the major providers around here. My connection to a local provider predates these services; it started out as a lowly Pacific Bell "alarm line" connection.

I've had excessively annoying experiences with both AT&T and Comcast so I strive to keep them out of my personal life as much as possible.

The house next door is a rental. They used my wireless until they got settled (first, last, and deposit takes a bite out of people) but they are using AT&T and satellite television now.

I don't have cable or satellite television and that's the way I like it.

So far as I know nobody has ever abused my connection, not that I keep logs. Most people are pretty decent.