Re: Secure? Installing a wireless router at next door neighbor's so I can surf

Booth is right.  Reselling the cable broadband service will almost
certainly be a TOS violation. 

How is the cel phone reception at your father-in-laws?  Get a data card
for your laptop or get a cel plan that lets you tether the cel phone to
the laptop & use the cel connection for data.  If you get EvDO or EDGE
speed it's about as good as decent DSL and still supports VPN, etc.
Sprint's phone-as-modem plan is $40 a month on top of whatever your cel
minutes cost and it includes unlimited data, legal tethering, and any
other data your cel can work with (streaming audio/video, email, SMS,
browsing, whatever).  It's a complete data plan for your cel device +
your laptop.  I use it with a Treo 700p and because I have it solely for
work usage, work reimburses me for the expense.


John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
V: +1-630-455-2787 F: +1-312-601-1782
john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx

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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:35 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Secure? Installing a wireless router at next door
neighbor's so I can surf

Is this in any way related to work?  Could you explain the situation to
your employer and ask him to split the cost?

The setup you describe is in fact against the agreements she's signed
with the cable company.  The last thing you need is to get her in
trouble with the cable company.

You'll want to get a cordless phone to use the vonage feature.  Maybe if
she has the phone for long distance, that'd be enough pay for her?

Dan wrote:

I am in a situation where I am away from home several nights per week,

staying with my father-in-law who, surprise surprise, has no broadband

access.  Part of my job duties require me participate in a weekly 
rotation to log in and monitor some jobs at 9:30 in the evening.  Last

night, for the second night in a row, I had to drive a few miles into 
town to find a wireless hotspot to do this.  I'm really not going to 
want to be doing this in January, though.

Anyway, given that the cheapest I could get broadband at my 
father-in-law's was in the $45/month range, I proposed to my 
father-in-law's neighbor, who has cable internet, that I would split 
the cost of her internet-related fees if she would allow me to install

a wireless router in her home.  She thought that was a dandy idea.  
The distance between the router and my laptop would be approximately

30 feet max.

Today, I bought a Linksys/Vonage router for free after rebate (no 
obligation to get Vonage service - that was yet another rebate) at 
CompUSA.  (FYI, it's a Vonage Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router With

VoIP, 802.11g,b, SKU 316790.  Don't trust the out-of-stock messages on

their website, speak to a human at the store you shop at.)

But this is a situation where I don't have total control over the 
wireless router, since I don't have possession of it.  Since I connect

to work via a VPN connection (using the Contivity VPN client), and 
surf the internet through that VPN, that should be secure against 
*any* snooping, right?  On my laptop, I can set up the connection so 
that I know I'm utilizing WPA, and I would consider that a first line 
of defense from "outsiders", but has no effect on my neighbor's

ability, if she were so inclined, to snoop on my

traffic.  Correct so far?   It is almost silly to consider her a

threat from

what I know of her, but I'm a paranoid kind of guy, ya know?

Advice, comments, and money (especially money!) always appreciated!

- Dan

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