Goat, you're not looking very goatish today.....
I bought a Linksys 2.4ghz router which only has a range of 150ft, so I guess those pesky scubadivers with underwater PCs (do they make them yet?) could sneak up on us and plant a keylogger, otherwise I'm not too worried, although thanks for the thought.
Debk,
If there are discs involved, then I perfectly understand why you give them the PC, but so far as I understand these things, (which isn't a lot), what I'm providing is no different from what a NYC cafe owner is providing, or a hotel or even the City of New York (if they provide connectivity these days in Central Park and on street corners, which is quite possible). People who connect in those public places don't need discs or passwords do they, so why do you ? I'm just a little confused....
Actually, I think the whole thing is shifting quite rapidly around here... One of my guests from California arrived with highspeed wireless internet on his cellphone, making our brand new cable service redundant. I wonder whether that's less or more secure.
All I know is that the Cat 5 wiring they went to a great deal of trouble to install in my house 5 years ago to ensure computer terminals could be put throughout the house (not by us I might add) was a complete waste of money from day one. It's never been used. Maybe we're missing something, but it doesn't take the TV, that's a different cable.
Anyway, I guess the cable at the beach house won't last long either as everyone starts arriving with highspeed cellphone wireless, but that's OK as they installed it for free and it was done for the price of the $49 router. Do they have some form of encryption in the cellphones?
Sorry for rambling post.... fried brain...it's something like 46 celcius/ 110 farenheit in the shade and it's nearly 5pm....