I DONT WANT MY NEIGHBORS STEALING MY WI FI

I just got my wi fi setup today, and dont want my neigbors stealing it. I am using roadrunner. Got the linskys thing. Not to computer literate. Any help is appreciated, thank you kindly in advance.

1. Why not let them share your bandwidth in exchange for them paying part of the fee?

2. If you dont want them to use it, just turn off SSID, change the default password, enable WEP encrypting, and turn on MAC address filtering. This is probably smart to do in any case.

Wow thank you very much for the detailed answer. I will follow all these steps right away. Thanks despot!

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[Guthrie]

Keep your doors locked.