Never EVER trust them! You'll never beat the 100% efficiency of a wired connection! HAHAHA!

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You don't know what those wireless connections will do, they will betray you as soon as you turn your back on them.

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Heh, but a wired connection would mean paying for my own internet. I havent done that in 10 years. You are correct in not trusting wireless connections.. I am on your network, stealing your packets.

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You might also be a bit wary of whose network you are connecting to. It seems you trust the owners of those routers to not be sniffing/collecting/analyzing/messing with your data. Hopefully you are at least using HTTPS whenever possible or an encrypted VPN for all your traffic -- but even so there are dangers to trusting a random person's network and many sites have varying levels of encryption security on important things like cookies. Let's just say, you open yourself up to many more man-in-the-middle attack vectors by doing this.

Here's a few examples of things that could happen:
https://www.quora.com/I-am-using-an-unsecured-Wifi-from-a-neighbor-Can-they-discover-my-log-in-name-password-What-about-my-IP-can-they-track-me-with-Gmap-Location-using-IP

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It was kind of a major revelation for me to rediscover how much faster wired networking is compared to wifi. I got dependent on wifi for a while due to its convenience and my laziness, but with just a very modest amount of time and furniture rearrangement / cabling work my network transfer speeds and internet jumped to be about 30x faster than it was previously. 2MB/s file transfers between networked computer became 60+MB/s file transfers (SSD to SSD transfers probably could go 200+MB/s), internet speeds jumped from ~3-4MB/s max to 100+MB/s (on a gigabit fiberoptic line).

Especially for anyone with fiber optic internet or utilizing a home network/server, a wired connection can make a HUGE difference -- and it's something that can easily be overlooked for those conditioned to the convenience of wifi.

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My brother tried setup similar to yours few times - almost killed several members of household :>

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