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Ah thanks for the clarification Alan, I currently run my network open, although I live in a small rural village so the only person who connects is a farmer who lives a couple of miles away and owns lands here; he uses his laptop while he's breaking for lunch. I am quite interested in the Fonera system, but I'd only be doing it when I have my own place and my own connection (going to be in a shared house for the next couple of years at uni). Regards, Ross Bearman On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Viv wrote: >> I have just found out that our home network has been hijacked by a >> neighbour, using a homeplug. We used homeplugs because we understood >> that this was impossible - that signals would not get past the meter. >> This is not true and we have tested it by trying it out at our >> neighbours, the other side. >> >> We only found out that it was happening because we went away and left >> the internet all on - when we got back we had a warning email from our >> ISP that we were about to exceeed our monthly download limit. Someone >> had download nearly 2 gb in 2 days ! >> >> We are going to change over to a wireless router with encryption and a >> firewall but, for now have gone hard wired. >> >> I just wanted to warn all of you, in case you are using these. >> >> regards >> >> Viv > It may be worth sending this to some of the Linux magazines, so they > can warn their readers, > > Paul > > -- > > Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format > as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org > > Software Freedom day 21st September 2008 > > > > visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version 3.1 > GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- > O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- > DI! D++ G e H! r! z? > > -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html