Man Installs Lead Sheets to Fight Wireless Piggybacking

[IRiSHMaFIA]

(Atlanta, GA) Harold Merriworth said that he is a "reasonable guy," but that he has reached a point where he needs to take drastic action against some neighbors who piggyback his 200mw A/P wireless signal.

"I think there are at least three blatant SOBs sucking up my bandwidth, and this is really getting old," he told National Nitwit reporters. "It's getting so bad that it takes, like, 30 seconds just to upload the Google homepage."

Merriworth's innovative solution is to install lead sheeting on the exterior walls of his house to combat the "signal leeches," or people who tap into someone else's wireless Internet connection without permission.



"I was getting ready to remodel the house anyways, so it's not that much more work to cut and hand sections of lead," he said, adding that he is using zinc-coated sheeting for improved safety. "It's either that, or I go back to dial-up."



Merriworth's router in its new leaded location

Merriworth admits that he is not sure if his plan will ultimately succeed in disrupting the actions of his "persistent" piggybacking neighbors.

"I tried passwords and encryption, but these pricks are pretty decent hackers," he acknowledged. "But at the very least I'll be in better shape if someone drops a dirty bomb in the neighborhood."

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He won't have to worry about his bandwidth being stolen once the lead poisoning sets in

[6ULDV8]

Perhaps having played with a lot of lead in the past was his inspiration / motive for this

All he needed to do was install a decent BRAND to start with...

[Skylace]

Now there's a man who takes his fast internet seriously!

[faceless]

surely it would be easier to run cables through the walls and just use a LAN if he's going to that extreme of building stuff in to the walls?

Daft bugger

[IRiSHMaFIA]

To avoid lead poisoning he should build a cement bomb shelter 30 feet into the ground and put the router there

[radiomanpj]

Maybe he should use a different password than "PASSWORD".

[Gasman59]