Long range wireless router help

[boggen]

the "end user license agreements" have gotten so long. that it is impossible to even read them all the way through.

i can understand reason for some things being placed into "end user license agreements" to deal with hackers, thieving, spam. and in that try to make things a better place.

i also remember at one time there was a limit being placed into agreements in how many computers you could have connected to a single internet connection, and if network you were in error with the "end user license agreement" honestly they wanted to squeeze folks for every last penny they could out of pure greed.

with more and more broad band internet connection and wireless routers. it is rather amazing how many singles folks can get. was shocked a couple years ago. going some place with my cousin and his "play station portable" just going down the road even in rural let alone in town, he was getting connections left and right. granted he would not be able to play an online live game. but was able to browse internet web pages. get a map route going, etc...

i hate to say it, but at moment there has been no need in great demand to set any sort of password / security setup on routers.

to be honest, i am waiting to see wireless to wireless routers individual homes in towns and cities. to build there own "network" that begins to by pass hard wires, such as from cable companies and DSL from phone companies. and a digital wireless setup being placed directly in "telcom" poles around areas as a centralized setup.

 

[Redneck in training]

Just drive in any residential neighborhood and try to log on. There will be always somebody who has security enabled but whose password is "password".

 

[retiredmgn]

I refer to my ISP as stupidheads all the time, and they've never termina

:laughing::laughing::laughing:

 

[retiredmgn]

Up at 4 this morning. Listening to news and scrolling through this post.
Didn't Mark Twain chime in on this? "Lies, damm lies and ethics".
I'm thinkin' if everybody who wrote in here just sent the guy $5 he'd have that $250 covered by now.

 

[cdaigle430]

Get your own Hughs Net or Satellite Internet-Usually they have specialls were instalation and equipment is free and or comes with a nominal installation price. It's alot better what you have now and it's legal (not that I care). I think any neighbore who shares internet with another is taking a huge risk-not because of the legality of it but how the **** do they know what your downloading?

 

[JDgreen227]

Get your own Hughs Net or Satellite Internet-Usually they have specialls were instalation and equipment is free and or comes with a nominal installation price. It's alot better what you have now and it's legal (not that I care). I think any neighbore who shares internet with another is taking a huge risk-not because of the legality of it but how the **** do they know what your downloading?

EXCELLENT POINT you make. Suppose my neighbor grants me permission to piggyback off his service, and he is a teacher... And they trace my kiddie **** back to him (HEY, JUST AN EXAMPLE HERE)

 

[hawkeye08]

How about just boosting your own aircard?

This is interesting reading.

A Computer Aircard

This is probably the best place to invest some $$... OP already has aircard, just needs a stronger signal at home...

 

[Ken45101]

Get your own Hughs Net or Satellite Internet-Usually they have specialls were instalation and equipment is free and or comes with a nominal installation price.

Oh yeah, Hughes is so wonderful... NOT! But it is better than nothing.

And the equipment is not "free". You either purchase upfront for several hundred dollars, or you pay a lease fee each month.

 

[dmccarty]

If I buy X units of something (whether its megabytes of transfer, Twinkies, etc), and want to give some away, I disagree that its criminal stealing. Stealing would be me taking more than I paid for. If I paid for X and took X+1 from the provider, then I'm stealing. If I paid for X and used X-5 myself then gave my neighbor 3, then I'm not stealing. If the agreement was they were non-transferable, then I'm in violation of the agreement for transferring them, but I'm still not stealing.

I hear Canada recently passed a law that would remove some of the ambiguity about this, requiring ISPs to charge based on metered usage instead of selling "unlimited" plans (that were never really unlimited to behind with).

Keith

You are buying a service for which you are not allowed to sell. You do not have the RIGHT to repackage the service much less sell the service. The service is not a box of twinkies.

Later,
Dan

 

[dmccarty]

So if it is illegal to share your signal with a neighbor then it must be illegal to share it with a house guest as well or even multiple users in the same household, they better start building more jails for this crime spree:laughing:

The state statutes I read could be pushed to that extreme but there is a BIG difference of guest using the connection, compared to a permanent use by another household.

It is a pretty obvious difference.

The OP has stated he does not want to pay for the service.

The OP is figuring out how to get around paying for the service.

I found a couple NC statutes for which he could be charged if he ever DOES use the service without paying.

There is both civil and criminal law at play.

Later,
Dan