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By Bradley Mitchell, About.com Guide to Wireless / Networking

Using Your Neighbor's Wi-Fi, Sometimes by Accident

Monday August 8, 2005
| Commentary | It may or may not be legal, but stealing Wi-Fi bandwidth from your neighbors is just plain tacky. Yet this article misses a bigger point. Forget about piracy for a minute. Increasingly, folks stumble onto each others networks accidentally as our wireless airwaves grow increasingly crowded. What to do about that is a much more interesting problem.
→ Discussion - Avoiding Conflicts with Neighbors' Wi-Fi
→ Tip - Change the Wi-Fi Channel to Avoid Interference
→ Dvorak - On Wireless Signal Spill
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