Interesting topic that you propose.

I think that we are real idiots, each one paying for their own little Wi-Fi when it is a resource that we could share between neighbors. We should change the chip, not only in our motherboards but also in our little heads, and stop consuming things that are so easy to share so happily individually. It is curious that little by little this is being introduced into things as consolidated as transport, after a few years of carsharing companies, motorcycle sharing, patinente sharing... in the cities at least it is beginning to be noticed that the rock no longer has so clear that you have to have your own car. Hey! this is going around the bush hahaha

You do not have to assume it, in the Wi-Fi you can see which devices are connected to it, and restrict that traffic if you consider it. I'm looking forward to catching a neighbor "stealing" my Wi-Fi, so I can propose that we pay half of it. There's a pipeline for that and more, and we all win.

oh! what is my opinion huh? I don't know 🙂 what do you think?

By the way, I have the router user 1234 passw 1234 HAHAHA yes, yes, that's true, you can't have it like that 😉

Good,
As Frances says, there are towns that depend on the town hall giving free WIFI to the town and it is an easy and cheap infrastructure to set up.
But there are always some who abuse bandwidth harming others.
Even so, my recommendations are always the same, change the user and pass of the router, then adjust the Wi-Fi channel and change the pass and protocol (rare as it may seem, I still see routers with WEP) and then improve security with white or black lists.

Hello good, regarding the security of your network/router/wifi, it is always convenient, and I do it whenever possible 🙂, to change users and passwords for both the router administration and the wifi. Change the router administration username and password to make any changes you need in the router configuration, and prevent anyone from messing with it :-), and on the other hand, in the Wi-Fi network configuration, change the SSID ( the name of your Wi-Fi network ;-)) as well as the password.
In addition to this, hide your Wi-Fi network (hide access point, disable SSID broadcast), change its encryption, if it is with WEP, change to WPA2/PSK/AES.
Of course disable WPS, and also DHCP (the dynamic assignment of IP to the devices on your network) and manually assign an IP to each of the PCs and devices on your network.
Also for more security, and to avoid "unintentionally sharing" 🙂 your Wi-Fi network with friendly neighbors, apply MAC filtering including all MACs (the ID or physical address of each device on your network), so that they connect to your network only your devices.
And apart from all this aside from security, and to improve your connection (if you have problems connecting via Wi-Fi), as you say, change the channel of the Wi-Fi network to another one that is not saturated (that not everyone is connected to the same).
And finally, depending on the applications you use that connect to the network, and that may need a higher bandwidth continuously, whether it is to share files, play online, videoconference, streaming, etc... open the ports that use those applications as well as apply QoS (Quality of service) rules to give priority to those applications over the rest of uses that require less bandwidth.
Well, as for the configuration of the router and your home network, I don't think I left anything out, you'll tell me 🙂

I disagree with the French friend, because people tend to abuse. With the pull that I hit on the Internet, if I were the one to "steal" your signal, I'm sure you wouldn't even be able to start the browser, much less watch a YouTube video, so that "share expenses" thing, believe me no it would pay off.

In many small towns, a Wi-Fi network has been implemented for neighbors for devices that consume few resources, such as tablets and mobile phones, so that grandparents can use WhatsApp and Skype.

In any case, in the future this connectivity problem may be corrected by Elon Mask's satellite network, which they say will be "free" (nobody believes that, since nobody gives anything for nothing. Surely, seeing the user data traffic, you'll be swamped with a bunch of personalized shopping "recommendations.).

And as for what you say about sharing the Internet connection and freer access to a more decentralized and distributed network, as it says @iasaltadormars there are many small municipalities in which the citizen is listened to and their real daily needs are attended to, and this in turn has a closer and more direct access to the institutions, (come on, you can find the mayor in the bar or the square of the town, and tell him what he needs) 🙂 .

In these cases it is easy and cheap to implement an infrastructure that provides "free" telecommunications service (via municipal taxes and fees of course 🙂 ) and it is already done in many towns. Something that is more difficult in large cities, both direct access to institutions, and agreeing to many more people to participate in the project.

In any case, there have been and there are a few projects for a decentralized and distributed network, in which each user works in some way as a node that gives other users wireless access to that network.

Thinking back, I remember for example:

guifi.net

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net

https://guifi.net/  

Redfree

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedLibre

https://www.redlibre.net/es

And with a completely different approach was FON

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON

And the truth, and going completely off the rails, or not ;-), the truth is that it would not be bad and I would like a much more decentralized and distributed network, without so much dependence on large multinational companies that concentrate and centralize, and for the that globalization works like a funnel, in which the wide part is for them and in the narrow part we, the users, have to squeeze in.

And I am talking about infrastructures (cable, antennas and nodes), telecommunications providers (ISP) and content (CDN), with their search engines, clouds and social networks, which giving an image of free competition, diversity, plurality , with its misunderstood collaborative economy (the funnel I was talking about), its surveillance and information gathering, its shared services, such as car sharing that you mentioned @French, software as a service, with its subscriptions for everything, etc... that actually centralize and concentrate everything in a few companies and finally in a few hands, and instead of giving us more freedom and more autonomy, they leave us on the sidelines , they tie us up and we remain sold and at the expense of their interests.

That dependency as a user seems terrible to me, but it already seems insane to me that marketing, communication, sales strategies and ultimately the activity and data of companies depend so much and remain in the hands of third parties, of those large technology companies.

So tools like forums seem to me to be very necessary and useful, and a small step, albeit a small one, towards that really shared and collaborative network, which shouldn't have become so obsolete. So as I said in another comment on the forum, we need more forums, more blogs, more decentralized alternatives to google, facebook, twitter, youtube, and internet access providers and their content.

And well, at this point it may be naive and very utopian to claim a network outside of all that and in the hands of users, but it would be nice to see it and experience it. 🙂

And as for what you say about sharing the Internet connection and freer access to a more decentralized and distributed network, as it says @iasaltadormars there are many small municipalities in which the citizen is listened to and their real daily needs are attended to, and this in turn has a closer and more direct access to the institutions, (come on, you can find the mayor in the bar or the square of the town, and tell him what he needs) 🙂 .

In these cases it is easy and cheap to implement an infrastructure that provides "free" telecommunications service (via municipal taxes and fees of course 🙂 ) and it is already done in many towns. Something that is more difficult in large cities, both direct access to institutions, and agreeing to many more people to participate in the project.

In any case, there have been and there are a few projects for a decentralized and distributed network, in which each user works in some way as a node that gives other users wireless access to that network.

Thinking back, I remember for example:

guifi.net

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net

https://guifi.net/  

Redfree

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedLibre

https://www.redlibre.net/es

And with a completely different approach was FON

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON

And the truth, and going completely off the rails, or not ;-), the truth is that it would not be bad and I would like a much more decentralized and distributed network, without so much dependence on large multinational companies that concentrate and centralize, and for the that globalization works like a funnel, in which the wide part is for them and in the narrow part we, the users, have to squeeze in.

And I am talking about infrastructures (cable, antennas and nodes), telecommunications providers (ISP) and content (CDN), with their search engines, clouds and social networks, which giving an image of free competition, diversity, plurality , with its misunderstood collaborative economy (the funnel I was talking about), its surveillance and information gathering, its shared services, such as car sharing that you mentioned @French, software as a service, with its subscriptions for everything, etc... that actually centralize and concentrate everything in a few companies and finally in a few hands, and instead of giving us more freedom and more autonomy, they leave us on the sidelines , they tie us up and we remain sold and at the expense of their interests.

That dependency as a user seems terrible to me, but it already seems insane to me that marketing, communication, sales strategies and ultimately the activity and data of companies depend so much and remain in the hands of third parties, of those large technology companies.

So tools like forums seem to me to be very necessary and useful, and a small step, albeit a small one, towards that really shared and collaborative network, which shouldn't have become so obsolete. So as I said in another comment on the forum, we need more forums, more blogs, more decentralized alternatives to google, facebook, twitter, youtube, and internet access providers and their content.

And well, at this point it may be naive and very utopian to claim a network outside of all that and in the hands of users, but it would be nice to see it and experience it. 🙂

And as for what you say about sharing the Internet connection and freer access to a more decentralized and distributed network, as it says @iasaltadormars there are many small municipalities in which the citizen is listened to and their real daily needs are attended to, and this in turn has a closer and more direct access to the institutions, (come on, you can find the mayor in the bar or the square of the town, and tell him what he needs) 🙂 .

In these cases it is easy and cheap to implement an infrastructure that provides "free" telecommunications service (via municipal taxes and fees of course 🙂 ) and it is already done in many towns. Something that is more difficult in large cities, both direct access to institutions, and agreeing to many more people to participate in the project.

In any case, there have been and there are a few projects for a decentralized and distributed network, in which each user works in some way as a node that gives other users wireless access to that network.

Thinking back, I remember for example:

guifi.net

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net

https://guifi.net/

Redfree

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/RedLibre

https://www.redlibre.net/es

And with a completely different approach was FON

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON

And the truth, and going completely off the rails, or not ;-), the truth is that it would not be bad and I would like a much more decentralized and distributed network, without so much dependence on large multinational companies that concentrate and centralize, and for the that globalization works like a funnel, in which the wide part is for them and in the narrow part we, the users, have to squeeze in.

And I am talking about infrastructures (cable, antennas and nodes), telecommunications providers (ISP) and content (CDN), with their search engines, clouds and social networks, which giving an image of free competition, diversity, plurality , with its misunderstood collaborative economy (the funnel I was talking about), its surveillance and information gathering, its shared services, such as car sharing that you mentioned @French, software as a service, with its subscriptions for everything, etc... that actually centralize and concentrate everything in a few companies and finally in a few hands, and instead of giving us more freedom and more autonomy, they leave us on the sidelines , they tie us up and we remain sold and at the expense of their interests.

That dependency as a user seems terrible to me, but it already seems insane to me that marketing, communication, sales strategies and ultimately the activity and data of companies depend so much and remain in the hands of third parties, of those large technology companies.

So tools like forums seem to me to be very necessary and useful, and a small step, albeit a small one, towards that really shared and collaborative network, which shouldn't have become so obsolete. So as I said in another comment on the forum, we need more forums, more blogs, more decentralized alternatives to google, facebook, twitter, youtube, and internet access providers and their content.

And well, at this point it may be naive and very utopian to claim a network outside of all that and in the hands of users, but it would be nice to see it and experience it. 🙂