Speaking of "stealing bandwidth," I briefly skimmed an article a while back and never was able to go back and read it more carefully, but I was surprised to learn that at least one major Internet provider (and I can't remember which one) allows any customer to use any other customer's home wifi by logging in with their own customer login info. Has anyone else heard of this? I wonder if these customers even realize that they are potentially sharing their wireless access point with complete strangers?

Apparently the public bandwidth is separate and will supposedly never degrade your own bandwidth or allow someone from outside to access your private network, but still, I was pretty shocked to hear about this. I have AT&T and I remember feeling relieved, so I don't think it was AT&T that has this "service".