Quote Originally Posted by blumblumshub View Post
Basically as soon as your laptop is within range of any wireless network that isn't encrypted, it will connect to it. Usually that's your own network, but occasionally you'll nab someone else's bandwidth... Completely by accident of course. :cheekymonkey:
not true, this depends on how you have your wireless card preferences setup, personally I have mine setup to always connect to my preferred network (my own secured one) and never to connect to unsecure networks unless I add the unsecure network to my list of good networks.