Wi-fi providers

[hyperD]

I have three neighbours with unsecured networks... 'moo', 'Silvermills' and 'dclayton'.

From doing a traceroute and speed test they are on 4 meg cable, 2 meg Nildram and 8 meg Bulldog.... its really useful as there is now a Bittorent client for my PDA

I blame Dixons. I know several people that have dropped their ISPs because they have found an unsecured WiFi to scavange off their neighbours.

[bobhope]

bittorrent

Don't you just get the speed of the fastest, as they're probably all on the same exchange and you get contention ratios coming into play? i.e. you might have 8 + 4 + 2 = 14 available but the contention ratio would then limit you to effectively 8?