Skip Gundlach wrote:

Given that I'm not downloading movies or otherwise using a lot of
bandwidth (even Vonage only uses 30k, and Skype even less, but at the
cost of latency), my usage, other than the curious geek looking at
traffic, is negligible, and of no account to the owner, even if it
weren't intended for open distribution...


I wasn't implying that you were doing anything improper by my query. I
just wondered because I often was anchored right off of someone's
backyard when in the ICW. When in Lake Worth, there were houses probably
within range of me when anchored also (on the Beach side). I didn't have
a computer on board then & anyway, wireless, esp G or N, was rarer than
than now. Heck, N was just a spec.

My thought was that probably if I did have a computer today, I could rec
open wireless and I wondered if you were doing that yourself. IMO, if
someone doesn't want you to use their connection, then can easily secure
it so I'd feel ok about using anybody's open wireless (at least
casually) if it were me.

-paul