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Old 08-23-2005, 10:15 PM
Bradyams Bradyams is offline
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Default Sharing Wireless

Today a neighbor came over who is renting out the basement from a family friend, and they don't have the internet, but he needs it. He noticed we had wireless, and wants to pay us to be able to use it. I have a few concerns.

1. In the rare event the cable company found out about this, does this break any terms or conditions?

2. If he got caught for downloading music or god forbid, child porn, it would be on us, not him, wouldn't it?

3. Could he gain access to the information we are sending over the wireless network with our own computers? I'm hooked up directly to the router with an ethernet cord, could he get any of my information? This is obviously a huge concern with my NETeller, and poker passwords. Could I somehow monitor his activity?

I think our internet bill is $40/mo, and there are five of us who split it. So that's $8/mo for each of us. If we decided to do this what do you think we should ask from him? I think $20/mo sounds fair.

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