Hey Mac people, totally unexpected here

[squids]

So I've got my mac, right? For about four months or something now. Its going great but I never hooked it up to the web cuz I woulda had to get a DSL modem and it woulda been extra. Anyway, I got my daughter an i-touch for graduation (it's so cool! ) and we checked to see if the wi-fi would work on it (knowing zip about wi-fi) and sure enough, it did! So then we checked my mac and it worked for that too! I'm totally ignorant about wi-fi. First off, we have DSL here at home. Last I heard about 6 months ago, they weren't doing cable even out here for the next few years. So how is this working? And if it's apple doing it, am I gonna get a bill? All excited and yet, too old to not be a bit suspicious, Squids

[twilsbach]

If you don't have a wireless router set up in your house, then you're probably grabbing a signal from your neighbor, or some nearby business. And no, you won't get a bill from apple.

[squids]

Thank you!

[aimusic]

Yeah more fool them for not putting a password on their wi-fi account

[guscave]

Jun 3, 2008, 6:31am, aimusic wrote:Yeah more fool them for not putting a password on their wi-fi account I use to think that all wi-fi routers should be open. I thought "what's the harm"? Then I heard about someone getting in trouble with the RIAA because someone in his building was downloading illegal mp3's through his un-protected wi-fi router.Don't know the out-come of his situation but I know that he had to go through a bunch of hassle to prove the download wasn't coming from his pc.

[stick]

Putting your own wifi router on your DSL connection is easy. If you wanna keep it all Apple, just pick up one of these handy dandy speedy routers. I got this same box on ebay recently for less than this...

[squids]

Okay, thanks a bunch, guys, all great info. Knew I could count on you.