My friend just found out that a neighbor has been using his Wi-Fi. For months now.

[Hama]

It's partially his fault because he made an easy password because he is forgetful. But the neighbor didn't just use his wi-fi to browse the web. He used it to download stuff. At the same time my friend played some important online matches, some of which were lost due to LAG that downloading caused.
So my friend, aside from changing his Wi-Fi password to something much more difficult, also (stupidly) knows that there is a window that can easily be opened from the outside and then closed back without anyone noticing has began to go inside his neighbor's house and raid his fridge whenever his neighbor and his wife are at work and the kids are in school.
We just heard neighbor and his wife in a screaming match over who drank the last carton of chocolate milk, my friend hefted a glass full of said milk and with a smug grin began to drink it.
I told him that is a very stupid passive-aggressive approach to things, not to mention highly illegal too. I hope he stops soon, or i might have to intervene.

What would you do if you found out that a douche has been stealing your wifi and messing up important stuff for you, aside from changing the wifi password of course.

[Jim Groves]

Well, I would stop with the provable crime.

Honestly, your friend needs some perspective. The online gaming was important to him, but its not important the grand scheme of his whole life. People go to jail for crawling through windows and raiding the fridge.

Change the password, maybe cloak the SSID. Consider the stolen chocolate milk as a fair trade, and write it off. Quit. Call it even. Walk away.

[Hama]

I know. I told him so. Hopefully, he will stop it. And the milk is not the only thing he took. The only reason i have not reported him to the police already is because we are childhood friends.

[Daethor]

Yeesh. What else did he take? Anything valuable? If so, he should try to return it in some way...but no more breaking and entering!

Good luck to him and you. That's an uncomfortable situation.

[Hama]

Just food. And nothing valuable too. A chocolate bar, a soft drink, a chocolate drink carton, stuff like that.

Would you do something out of vengeance if you found out?

[Juda de Kerioth]

i just tell him whats wrong with stole my wifi, and ask for money to pay and let him use it (actualy its happens to me and now my neighbor and i have a wifi with more speed and pay a half the service each of us).

[CalebTGordan]

Nope.

I have heard of a friend of mine changing wifi passwords just to prove that someone needs better internet security. To be fair, he used a random string of numbers and letters that he couldn't remember. Or so he claimed. He also claimed the name of the wifi changed to "HackThisSucker."

[havoc xiii]

What so 'that's' what happened to our milk?!?!

Spoiler:

Just kidding carry on.

[Thornborn]

A decent WIFI router can keep your neighbor from using too much of your bandwidth, prioritizing game traffic, while you build a proxy to filter the web traffic and invert all the graphics, or make all the text Pig Latin, or some such.

An educational, entertaining, and entirely legal approach.

But then your friend would become responsible for whatever web sewer the neighbor crawls into.

[Hama]

I work as a cable guy and i install wireless routers as an extra service (i charge that, since it's private work). If a person is vile to me while i install the equipment, i tend to pass by their building a few days later, connect to their network with my phone and change their wireless password.
I do it only to really horrible people though. And i change it back a week later.

[Juda de Kerioth]

Hama wrote:

I work as a cable guy and i install wireless routers as an extra service (i charge that, since it's private work). If a person is vile to me while i install the equipment, i tend to pass by their building a few days later, connect to their network with my phone and change their wireless password.

I do it only to really horrible people though. And i change it back a week later.

Your an ugly person then... i hope someone at your work read this and fired you.

if you don´t have the service, then you need to seek another option

Doing that is worst than the fact that they treat!!
sorry, my thoughs :P

[Nicos]

so familiar...

[Robert Brookes]

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they do occasionally make a felony or misdemeanor criminal case depending on the state it happens in.

[Krensky]

So everyone involved - you, your friend, and his neighbors - are felons. Good to know.

[Hama]

Juda de Kerioth wrote:

Hama wrote:

I work as a cable guy and i install wireless routers as an extra service (i charge that, since it's private work). If a person is vile to me while i install the equipment, i tend to pass by their building a few days later, connect to their network with my phone and change their wireless password.

I do it only to really horrible people though. And i change it back a week later.

Your an ugly person then... i hope someone at your work read this and fired you.

if you don´t have the service, then you need to seek another option

Doing that is worst than the fact that they treat!!
sorry, my thoughs :P

I assume someone has done this to you?

I am sorry, but i am a human, not a robot. If i do my job well, and everything works as it is supposed to and i have the strength to smile and be pleasant after a 12 hour shift of mostly horrible people, the least i expect is some common courtesy. If you can't muster that little, i will not care.

[Hama]

Krensky wrote:

So everyone involved - you, your friend, and his neighbors - are felons. Good to know.

Most people are...

[Chris Lambertz]

Locking thread.