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Old May 23, 2005 | 2:35 pm
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Originally Posted by brassai
I was in Induianapolis last week and stayed at the downtown Hilton. $9.95 a day for wired access. turns out that someone living in the lofts across the street had left an open access point. No worries.... and worked like a charm.
I can just see the residents of the loft wondering why they have such a slow connection, completely unaware that they have several floors of one side of a hotel piggybacking on their service.

Reminds me of when cordless phones were really bad, and people in apartment complexes would pick up each others' conversations.
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