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Hi, Can my grandaughter use my wireless internet connection legally as well as me using mine.How do I enable it to operate? Any help appreciated

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  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    Only if she is within range (ie same building). All that is needed is to display available access points and connect to yours (entering your passphrase).
  • exup
    exup Posts: 1,235 Forumite
    There are certain legal requirements that some ISPs are concerned with, but theses are more to do with hosting web services etc. For end users such as yourself and your graddaughter you are ok, and realistically only limited by the bandwidth / connection speed and the number of users on it. ie the more people try to connect to your network, the more it is shared out between you
    Don't try to teach a pig to sing - it wastes your time and annoys the pig
  • fiddiwebb
    fiddiwebb Posts: 1,806 Forumite
    joe134 wrote: »
    Hi, Can my grandaughter use my wireless internet connection legally as well as me using mine.How do I enable it to operate? Any help appreciated

    Hi Joe

    Yes of course your grandaughter can share your wireless legally so long as she is within range of your wireless router and she has a wireless adaptor/card in her laptop.

    If you have set up security on your wireless router then she will need the password.

    Your grandaughters laptop if wifi enabled should be able to find your connection.
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