[sllug-members]: Comcast limited bandwidth?

Knight Walker kwalker at kobran.org
Wed Dec 13 16:50:30 MST 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 20:42 +0000, Jason Holt wrote:
> There are lots of good reasons to run unencrypted wireless networks. 
> Certainly if someone is being impolite and sucking up all your bw, you should 
> bump them off.  But especially when running a reasonably-adminned Linux box, I 
> try to avoid crippling the possibilities of a really neat technology.

And a couple of very good reasons to encrypt the ever-living crap out of
your wireless network, namely if one of your neighbors does anything
illegal while using your connection, the Powers That Be will come down
on YOU.

-KW



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