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Connection speed is about 1Mbit/s, not that much, but sufficient for checking your mails.
If people participate ? Well, this is a feature of the provider, so you cannot shut it off, so basically, yes , they do 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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So if someone walking past your house uses your router to download illegal/copyrighted material, or to participate in a DDoS, how do you prove that it wasn't you?
Sounds like a bad idea to me. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The two lines are internally clearly separated. There is a log to see who made what downloads.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: 1Mbit/s, not that much
We really have become entitled sods in the 21st century, haven't we?
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Yep.
BT Fon[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Does it works well? People participate in it?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I don't know.
I did sign up for it when I had a compatible router a few years ago but cannot remember ever using it.
I do often see the wifi hotspots available if I turn on my wifi when out and about.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I have a friend who has a second ADSL line and WIFI for the good of the public serving the bench outside his front door. Comes with lovely views of Bristol. He's got too much money though.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: He's got too much money though.
But obviously he does not keep it to himself only...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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My daughter's school created a wifi network in the area around the school, asking people living nearby to host repeating aerials for which they could use the network.
The idea was to get all children living near the school on the internet.
As we have never lived anywhere near the school I don't know how successful this was.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Day 7 of reduced caffeine intake has not begun well
However, Day 1 of "free sauna at work week" has started very promisingly...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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"...but it's a dry heat."
Software Zen: delete this;
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I thought saunas were supposed to be dry.
Otherwise it would be a steam room.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Wouldn't that require throwing water over the overheating server?*
* - don't try this at home, kids.
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Hey! I don't have to log into it! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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but did note that having an internet link "significantly improves people's lives."
Used to be that things like access to nutritious food, medicine, education, satisfaction in work and family life, exercise, a healthy social life, spirituality -- those things improved people's lives. Now, I guess "liking" your local burger joint improves people's lives.
Marc
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People used to socialize face-to-face now it's face-to-phone-to-face so I guess the extra satellites are needed so we can communicate? Sad ain't it?, when we where young we knew everyone in the neighborhood, had block parties and met and did things together not needing a damn phone to link us together.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Aye, I remember that Christmas Eve of last year well, when I halted in the act of assembling a human face on this aging bag-of-bones prior to "going social," to whip-off a code example for a QA questioner [^].
And there, the answer, the code, sat, garnering a one-vote from the sociopath who haunts my QA posts on the full-moon.
Now, over five-months later, the OP accepted my answer. Seeing this, my brain was serenaded by my unconscious which started playing The Band's cover of Bob Dylan's "I shall be released."
Another small crawl for mankind ... I'd like to believe.
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : ‘I know all about it. I've already found it.’
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: ‘I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.’” Vincent Van Gogh
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So Bill, you've started on the drinks?
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After reading OPs question - his acceptance was a mere error of focus...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: his acceptance was a mere error of focus
"Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers:" Blanche Dubois' comment to the psychiatrist, whilst being packed off to the asylum, in Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar named Desire."
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : ‘I know all about it. I've already found it.’
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: ‘I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.’” Vincent Van Gogh
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Perhaps, just perhaps...he has learned something in the interim, and realised that you were talking sense? 
Or more likely he has only just checked his email... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I've not had a run in with him for a while, I've even answered a very few questions in Q&A recently, having pretty much stopped because of the nonsense. I thought he'd stopped posting, but no. His most recent effort is this: Can any body tell me about the name of default Hash Algorithm used by HashAlgorithm class[^], where he fails to answer the question. Instead he seems to have checked the problem out, found the solution fairly quickly and decided to use the opportunity to have a go at the OP, who comes across as a non-native English speaker and newbie.
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