My Open Wireless Network
bobby
Bruce Schneier has an excellent article on why he does not enable WEP or WPA on his home wireless network. He mentions a number of good reasons for keeping his wireless network open, but I think it all boils down to one phrase: “To me, it’s basic politeness”. I find it rather annoying if I go someplace, try to read my email, and find that there are only WEP’ed networks around. And I want guests at my place to have the ability to surf the net. It really is common courtesy.
In previous residences, where I was in a slightly more densely populated setting, I’ve left open wireless networks before only to find my latency skyrocketing; I can only assume this is due to others connecting and hogging my upload. Comcast throttles my upload to about 50KB/s. In those cases I resorted to running WEP. But if people are polite back to me, and do not ruin my internet experience, I have no problem opening up my wireless for them.
Posted on: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 11:18 am 
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