Poll of the Day > So have you ever used a neighbor's wifi?

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I did at my old house when I was like 10-13. We never had wifi and only had dial-up, even though this was like 2008, and I really wanted wifi to get online with Pokemon Pearl. So for some reason I was just checking to see if I could get any wifi and I noticed I could just barely pick up wifi from the neighbor across the street and got hella excited, and I remember the first thing i did was a trade involving a Scyther, I don't remember if i gave it or received it.

And then later I realized I could get a signal on the Wii from my room, and then that was the first time I ever had access to Youtube that wasn't on dial-up; and I loved it. My neighbor knew too and didn't mind at all, she even let me and my cousin in her house one day just so we could use her internet on my DS and his PSP.

Wish I still had a good wifi source, we moved out to the middle of nowhere and all internet here is satellite and absolute shit, and they all apparently added some bullshit filter to what you can download at certain speeds so now it takes me 24 hours to download a 2 GB game. So I have to either take my shit to a friends house or use a hotpot on a phone to get literally anything related to Steam or PS4. Switch files somehow aren't affected for some reason.

So what about you guys, Ever do it, and why?
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Nope, never lived close enough to a neighbor to try.
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Yes. Namely, before using a phone to go online was a reasonable option, and my own wifi decided it didn't feel like working. I can't be the only one to do it when their own wifi was acting up.
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All the time when I had a laptop.
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No, although partly because everybody nearby used some form of encryption.
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No. I've just never needed to. I've always had my own internet.
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we would go to the little park behind one of the churches with our psps, and it had free church wifi

we would download porn
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I have before. It was brief, though. Before everyone knew about encrypting their Wi-Fi. But we had ours not too long after, anyway... I would try to switch sometimes when I felt mine wasn't going fast enough, though.

helIy posted...

we would go to the little park behind one of the churches with our psps, and it had free church wifi

we would download porn

How old were you? Also, it's kind of funny to use the church Wi-Fi to do it...
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I remember back in like 2006 or 2007, before most people had wifi, I used to go over to a friend's house to play yugioh very regularly. One day we were playing yugioh world championship 2007 or something on DS and we decided to drive to McDonald's to get food (my older brother was the only one who had a license). On the way, someone figured out that the neighbor down the street had unlocked wifi, so from that day on we would walk down the street and steal their wifi to play yugioh online while standing on the side of the road lol. It was so dumb in retrospect, but it was so fun at the time.
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they had pretty much just came out so...

13 or 14?

it's weird to think, though, that the psp came out the same year the 360 came out

and i didn't get one of those until i was...17?
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yep. the good ol' days before everyone used pw's.
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Ive never seen one that wasnt pw locked
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

yep. the good ol' days before everyone used pw's.

I missed out then. Didnt start using WiFi till 2012.
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Yes, because parents are ignorant that they can't deprive me of internet by turning off theirs.
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Way back before everything started getting password protected. I bet a lot of people just use default passwords though.
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Nope, never.
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I have one of my neighbors' guest password and he has mine. We have it in case our internet goes down.
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AllstarSniper32 posted...

Nope, never.

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magemaximus posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

yep. the good ol' days before everyone used pw's.

I missed out then. Didnt start using WiFi till 2012.

When it first came out, passwords were very rare. And then, almost all at once, nearly everyone he them...

Revelation34 posted...

Way back before everything started getting password protected. I bet a lot of people just use default passwords though.

This, too...
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LinkPizza posted...

magemaximus posted...

Krazy_Kirby posted...

yep. the good ol' days before everyone used pw's.

I missed out then. Didnt start using WiFi till 2012.

When it first came out, passwords were very rare. And then, almost all at once, nearly everyone he them...

Revelation34 posted...

Way back before everything started getting password protected. I bet a lot of people just use default passwords though.

This, too...

I would only ever try it now if my internet went out.
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When I was 13 I would walk down the street until I found a network.

Even back then everyone had passwords. If only I knew what I know now, I'd just try "admin" on all of them. Actually, I think I did. Nvm.
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Yellow posted...

When I was 13 I would walk down the street until I found a network.

Even back then everyone had passwords. If only I knew what I know now, I'd just try "admin" on all of them. Actually, I think I did. Nvm.

The other default one is "password".
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That was 10 years ago. It's going to feel much worse in 10 more years when I'm balding.
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magemaximus posted...

Ive never seen one that wasnt pw locked

This, I've never seen a wifi point that wasn't password protected.

I even protected my own central wifi with mac-adresses and disabled all of the other ones.

My girl uses her neighbor's WiFi. They shared for awhile, splitting the cost. She eventually got her own, then.lost it because she couldn't afford it anymore. Turns out the neigh or never changed his password. So she went back to using it without telling him. I ocassionally use it while I'm over there. But I mostly stick to my mobile data. I have enough that I never run out.


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Yellow posted...

If only I knew what I know now, I'd just try "admin" on all of them.

admin/admin is the default login to the router, not the default encryption key
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I don't have neighbors close by.
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No.
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never found anyone dumb enough to not have it passworded. though I had a friend when he didn't have internet for awhile he'd go park at this particular gas station and leech off someone's wifi just to keep his computer games updated so when he did get internet back he wouldn't have to sit through a ton of updates.
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