On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:45:21 +0100, The Todal in message
<news:3krnpkFughvgU1@individual.net> wrote:

> "Paul Harper" <paul@harper.net> wrote in message
> news:6i9he1hog3fnnt9lifridsfcdlr7jjj2r9@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:08:10 +0100, "The Todal" <deadmailbox@beeb.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>I often wondered whether it was legal to do so, having had neighbours
>>>hijack
>>>my connection, and having discovered that my own kids were sometimes
>>>inadvertently hijacking a neighbour's connection.
>>>
>>>Yet another way for law abiding citizens to find themselves in breach of
>>>the
>>>law, then
>>
>> I don't have a lot of sympathy - anyone who doesn't put security on
>> their wireless network deserves all they get as far as I am concerned.
>
> Agreed. I now use security on my home wireless broadband. It does
> unfortunately mean that when my kids are trying to connect, their computers
> connect them to the neighbour's service and seemingly I can't prevent that.
> Or at least, if there is a way I'd like to know it.
>

Quite easy.

All wireless routers I am aware of have the facility to change the SSID (it
usually defaults to something like "NETGEAR", or "3COM").

If you change it to something unique to you, and then set the kids laptop
to only connect to that network, rather than to "any network in range",
then they should always use yours.

--
Alex Heney
Global Villager
You have to be sharp to be on the cutting edge.
To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTPLUSDOTcom