Til they get a nastygram from their ISP One of my linksys APs disappeared after seeding around 40gigs through it. -- You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much Bandwidth
I hope it was something legal. You could cause a lot of problems for you neighbors. It never really crossed my mind to use somebody's connection on a regular basis. I do carry a laptop in my work van and sometimes I will connect to look up a place but that's it.
I just did a site survey with my laptop and there was a lot of connections and most of them were secured. Some were not. My neighbor across the street has an open network. I will tell him to secure it. Really nice guy.