To those of you who are computer literate.

[Woolygimp]

Me and a friend were having a spirited discussion (Argument).
We are in a hotel paying $9.99 per day for a cable internet connection since our home city was damaged moderately by Hurricane Rita, and we found 7 people in adjacent rooms were leaching off our wireless router. I did a bandwidth test and found our modem was running at 56k speeds; I chalked it up to the fact that it was the 7 leechers while he said it was just a "standard lag spike". I disconnected the router, ran a direct cable to my computer and it immediately jumped up to 1.5mbit/s speeds over the next 20 tests I did +/-1.0 or so kbits.

So basically the argument was over a number of things:
1) Does someone downloading and wasting your bandwidth raise your ping?
2) Would hosting a 8 player game of Dawn of War while running on a 56k connection be smart?
3) Is it worth the trouble to kick those leechers in the balls for stealing your bandwidth?
4) Why do people eat the disgusting food at Mcdonalds?