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Fibre optic ISP Hyperoptic<\/a> has conducted a new study of 2,000 British adults that attempts to collate the sometimes poor performance of standard home broadband connections with the finding that 39% of respondents admitted to using their neighbours’ Internet connection by “stealing<\/em>” their WiFi<\/a>, which might be partly out of frustration with their own slow connections.<\/p>\n

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The survey, which attempts to investigate the relationships between neighbours and their networks, notes that 31% of respondents said they had been successful in accessing their neighbours Internet connection and this rises to 53% for those who live in London (note: 60% of Londoners said they’d attempted to “borrow<\/em>” their neighbours wifi<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Apparently 29% of respondents admitted attempting access to protected WiFi<\/a> networks by guessing the password, which again rises to 47% in London where Hyperoptic<\/a> is most focused with their 1000Mbps FTTH<\/a>\/P\/B broadband network. Most of the attempts involved using common cues such as dates of birth, pets\u2019 names and even license plate numbers.<\/p>\n

Dana Tobak, Managing Director of Hyperoptic<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It’s a shock to discover so many people admitting to ‘borrowing’ their neighbours’ broadband. \u2018Stealing’ other people’s WiFi cannot be condoned and is highly likely to have a detrimental effect on the connection your neighbours are receiving – and paying for.<\/em><\/p>\n

Many customers of standard broadband already battle with a slow and unreliable service that doesn’t allow everyone in the home to make the most of the internet at the same time, let alone carry unwanted surfers sneaking on to the network.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hacking your neighbours\u2019 WiFi isn\u2019t just wrong, it simply won\u2019t cut it. As life becomes increasingly digitised, the need for broadband reliability \u2013 and for speed \u2013 cannot be ignored. Hyperoptic gives all residents in a property the chance to enjoy uninterrupted gigabit speeds simultaneously, no \u2018borrowing\u2019 necessary, and ensures they can do so long term; future-proofing their homes to be compatible with the internet technologies yet to come<\/em>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Successful attempts at WiFi \u2018borrowing\u2019 by region<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2022 London \u2013 53%
\n\u2022 North East \u2013 42%
\n\u2022 Wales \u2013 40%
\n\u2022 South East \u2013 33%
\n\u2022 East Anglia \u2013 32%
\n\u2022 South West \u2013 28%
\n\u2022 Northern Ireland \u2013 27%
\n\u2022 West Midlands \u2013 26%
\n\u2022 East Midlands \u2013 25%
\n\u2022 North West \u2013 25%
\n\u2022 Yorkshire & Humber \u2013 21%
\n\u2022 Scotland \u2013 20%<\/p>\n

Successful attempts at WiFi \u2018borrowing\u2019 by age<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2022 35 \u2013 44 year olds \u2013 43%
\n\u2022 25 \u2013 24 year olds \u2013 42%
\n\u2022 45 \u2013 54 year olds \u2013 35%
\n\u2022 18 \u2013 24 year olds 18%
\n\u2022 55 & over – 10%<\/p>\n

WiFi password guessing by region<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2022 London \u2013 47%
\n\u2022 North East \u2013 48%
\n\u2022 Wales \u2013 32%
\n\u2022 South East \u2013 29%
\n\u2022 East Anglia \u2013 28%
\n\u2022 West Midlands \u2013 26%
\n\u2022 North West – 25%
\n\u2022 South West \u2013 24%
\n\u2022 Yorkshire & Humber \u2013 21%
\n\u2022 East Midlands \u2013 20%
\n\u2022 Scotland \u2013 19%
\n\u2022 Northern Ireland \u2013 13%<\/p>\n

WiFi password guessing by age<\/strong><\/span>
\n\u2022 25 \u2013 34 year olds \u2013 49%
\n\u2022 35 \u2013 44 year olds \u2013 40%
\n\u2022 45 \u2013 54 year olds \u2013 34%
\n\u2022 18 \u2013 24 year olds \u2013 6%
\n\u2022 55+ year olds \u2013 2%<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s difficult to believe that 53% of people in London might have successfully logged on to their neighbours WiFi, although Hyperoptic are adamant that their study was conducted with a “nationally representative sample<\/em>” and in fairness many people do run open WiFi networks without enabling the best WPA2 security.<\/p>\n

But these days secure home WiFi networks do seem to be in the majority, which is largely thanks to improved industry practices (e.g. big broadband ISPs often set random wifi passwords by default instead of leaving this down to the end-user).<\/p>\n

Elsewhere many of BT<\/a>’s broadband customers have FON technology enabled (often without realising), which creates a public hotspot for other BTWiFi customers by using a small slice of the owners spare bandwidth and this might easily confuse the results. At the same time some neighbours also intentionally share access to their wifi networks.<\/p>\n

On the other hand both of the above possibilities are partially countered by the respondents to Hyperoptic\u2019s survey, many of whom admitted to guessing their neighbours WiFi password and this would obviously imply unauthorised access.<\/p>\n

The legality of doing this is also very murky, especially with some hardware setup to automatically connect using open wifi networks. The UK’s Computer Misuse Act 1990 has a fairly broad interpretation, although if the access attempt was “unauthorised<\/em>” (e.g. after attempting to guess a password) then that would probably be counted as illegal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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