thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wireless

I like most poor apartment dwellers have been know to leech off a neighbors unprotected wifi network. The case usually being that I'm waiting for my own service to set up. It's amazing how many open networks you find just crusing slowly through the apartment complex with your laptop. A course should be taught on basic wifi security. My first network I set up two years back I was very strict and locked everything down tight, mac restriction, wep, non-broadcasted ssid and had no problems. It wasn't until this year, when I had to remove some of my settings to get my xbox live working that I actually had unsolicited visitors. Well admittedly pissed off at first, after I relaxed I thought it might be fun to play around with the neighbors. I mean they are using MY network doesn't that give me the right to all the data they are sending across? So I decided to explore options of trapping or redirecting their output requests. Unfortunately I found my router had no real capabilites (outside rewriting the firmware) of giving me access to outbound requests. A little more investigation and I found that hubs unlike the switches built into most modern routers will actually transmit signals to all hosts. Sounds like a possibly? Now that I'm in NJ and just got my cable internet set up, I'm looking for some guinea pigs. As soon as I get my old school hub and set up my ad hoc stalker network I"ll be sure to write more.