- Chances of someone "borrowing" my wifi connection - possible - Chances that it used for something illegal - quite unlikely - Chances that it gets noticed, traced back to my IP and my door gets kicked in - extremely unlikely
Factor in the convenience of leaving my AP open, plus a nice warm fuzzy feeling for sharing, and I think the rewards are worth the tiny amount of risk.
Can't help on a Mac, but did run into the same problem with my own HTPC using Windows MCE. I found two utilities that allow you to control the speed of your optical drive, check them out if interested:
http://cdbremse.dyndns.org/cdbremse.htm - page and installation are in German, but tool has English menus. Tool is shareware, I believe the author will take payment in the form of crates of Pepsi Light.
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It's all about risk management.
- Chances of someone "borrowing" my wifi connection - possible
- Chances that it used for something illegal - quite unlikely
- Chances that it gets noticed, traced back to my IP and my door gets kicked in - extremely unlikely
Factor in the convenience of leaving my AP open, plus a nice warm fuzzy feeling for sharing, and I think the rewards are worth the tiny amount of risk.
Can't help on a Mac, but did run into the same problem with my own HTPC using Windows MCE. I found two utilities that allow you to control the speed of your optical drive, check them out if interested:
s peed.html - Nero DriveSpeed
http://cdbremse.dyndns.org/cdbremse.htm - page and installation are in German, but tool has English menus. Tool is shareware, I believe the author will take payment in the form of crates of Pepsi Light.
http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?link=nerodrive