If I have free wifi, do I need a router for it to work?

Question

If so, which one do you recommend? I have a HP pavilion notebook laptop!

Answer 1

Piggybacking off another person's wifi is always illegal, whether you're cracking their encryption or not.  It's theft of a service.

That being said, if the wifi available to you is intentionally made freely available to the public, just connect to the network and surf away.

Answer 2

ya, or you can connect off other peoples routers, its not illegal unless you crack ther wep or wpa if its unsecure then you can use it

Answer 3

If you can connect to a service in the area already then no, you don't need a router because you're using someone else's.

Answer 4

apparently not