Mundane things that suck: A Neighbor putting a password in what used to be your free wi-fi connection

I recently moved to a new apartment and the first thing I did once all my stuff were settled was to crack open my laptop, and basked in all the wireless signals my laptop could snort. Unfortunately, no thanks to this guy who wrote this crap, all of said wireless connections were password-protected. All, except one.

And that glorious unsecured wireless signal was called Afrain. Sweet, sweet Afrain.

I had no idea if the connection was from the apartment next door, or from the one above us, but the signal was excellent, not to mention fast! For all I know the wireless signal could have come from HEAVEN ABOVE!

So every morning as I prepare breakfast, do some stretching, practice high flying kicks, and later go to work, my laptop is downloading five movies ALL AT ONCE at lightning speed, courtesy of Afrain. I didn’t even use our flat’s own wireless connection (which has just around 512 kbps bandwidth speed, pitiful compared to AFRAIN’s 1 Mbps)

But then again all good things must come to an end, when one morning as I scrape off cucumber, carrot, and lettuce slices off my face as I woke up to check my laptop, I realized I was no longer connected to the Internet. I tried sniffing for available connections and alas! Afrain is gone! Only to return a few days later in a secured, password-protected, selfish form.

I can’t see what’s wrong with sharing your Internet connection to other people, most especially to your neighbors who don;t mean any harm. It’s not that the connection speed will be lessened by the torrent downloads I made, nor will the owner be in trouble for his router visiting such fun sites as Dead-baby-joke.com, Smellypoop.com and the ever-hilarious Poobutton.com. Going to the router firmware interface to change the password and play around with the router settings neither poses a threat at all! No sir, not one bit.

So in conclusion, I declare that my neighbors are pompous bastards who I can’t turn to in times of need. Also, that Steeliotronic fella is a major dick.