At 8:17 AM -0800 01/14/2006, Amber R. wrote:
Of course, I am sure there are hundreds of people who visit friends
with wireless connections and just open up their laptops and surf.
Is it legal ? again depends on the ISP TOS, but there can be serious
consequences.
i.e. The person paying for the service would be liable for anything
illegal their guest/visitors were caught doing on-line as it all
would come back to their IP address. Unless you could prove it was
your guests who were responsible, you would be the one going to
jail.
This was just one concern I had about my neighbour and her brother
having access to my network.
Very real concerns.
You've heard of Spam Vans? Spammers that outfit a vehicle with
equipment, then drive around looking for access... Originally, they
were going to small ISPs and offering them $5K cash for a cat5 hookup
for a day. When the ISPs caught on to the blacklist nightmares that
caused, the spammers went wireless and started wardriving...
As for 2 unrelated persons sharing an apartment - In most cases,
tenants will share the cost of the service and both have legal
access to it. As long as this is permitted by the ISP, it's legal.
Most ISP's allow this as many families will have multiple computers
and want internet access for all of them.
To take this a step further... I had a great experience with Comcast
a year ago... A friend's son wanted to have his buddies over to play
some game over the 'net. A dozen computers, etc. He "drafted" me to
help set up the LAN to handle it. Then the boy started complaining
that the Comcast hookup wasn't fast enough for all those people. So
we contacted Comcast. Not only were they ok with having that many
people connected to thru the one residential service point, but they
even doubled the speed caps for the weekend - and only charged him $5
for it.
- Dan.
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