It's good to share...

I recently returned to the UK from Thailand for an extended break, and went to my father's house in Edinburgh. I was not looking forward to the prospect of dial-up internet and tried to persuade him to re-subscribe to broadband (he previously stopped it because it was 'too expensive and I end up spending whole days browsing the internet').
The internet seems difficult for people from an older generation due, in my opinion, to a less developed ability to discard useless information, or perhaps it's a greater respect for the written word, that is probably misplaced in the internet generation.
Anyway, as I opened my laptop and prepared to connect the dreaded phone lead to the modem socket, imagine my surprise when my wifi card told me there was a 'Netgear' network in range. 'I wonder....' . I quickly tried to connect and obtain an address through DHCP and, lo and behold, I was connected. My Skype icon went green and I was once again surfing broadband!
There was no security to speak of, no MAC address limitations on DHCP, no WEP, nothing. Perhaps they just want to share...?
If the proprietors are reading this blog (rofl: Ed), then I'd just like to say a big thankyou! Now I am phoning completely free, I just hope my benefactors don't have a volume-based charge.
It got me thinking that I might be able to configure my wifi connection at home in Thailand to allow Skype connections only, after all, it's good to share