Allan

England

Tech marketing

David - You've done well to find 3 WLANs from your sofa! My NetGear DG834G wireless ADSLmodem/router/firewall struggles to get a Low strength signal in a 'normal' household from the groundfloor hallway to a groundfloor back room only about 6metres away (through two open spaces and two open doorways). But you're right, WEP security should be the default WLAN security, but there's bog-all understandable about WEP in the set-up routines! Also, unless a person is maliciously or routinely abusing someone else's WLAN internet access, I think it's a bit rum to prosecute a guy for a one off (or even two-off) short term access - unless it's hacking access to steal data. Nix on hijacking someone else's b-band access for downloading huge movie files, but a quick check for emails should be allowed though, I would have thought that that's not unreasonable. Is it?