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andrewcooke on July 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Y...

that's why i run an open wifi. because i have benefited from others doing the same in the past.

ultrasaurus on July 13, 2011 [–]

I wish more routers came with a setting to share a small slice of your bandwidth on port 80 and 443 openly, with the real wifi access secured.

Where I live, open wifi will be saturated by your neighbours' bittorrents quickly (we pay by the GB).

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