Is a password effective in blocking piggybacking?

Would the use of a password stop people piggybacking on your connection while you're online?

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1. A good PW, with letters, symbols, numbers, would be a good way to start.
2. If it is WEP then it would stop most casual surfers. However, it can be cracked fairly easy. WPA2 is really a more secure solution but is a bit hard to setup. If you are not processing any super secret spy stuff, WEP should suffice. One other tidbit would be to choose a very unique password. "password" is not exactly a good one :)
3. If you are going to rob a house are you going to go to the house with the locked door or the one with the open door? Same thing applies here. Most hackers will go for the easier prey however, there are tools out there that the hackers can use to break passwords. That why it is always crucial you don't use names, pet names, etc because these are the first things these password crackers try. Make your passwords hard. Use symbols, capital letters and numbers. A password may be broken and the harder it is the longer it will take the cracker to break it. If there is an open internet connection, they aren't going to spend the time trying to go through the passworded one when there are many unlocked signals to go around.
4. WEP can be broken easily, it's better than nothing but if you want to be assured that nobody is going to piggyback your WiFi network then use WPA.
5. I use a random character generator that you click/copy/paste. i don't even know what it is.
6. yes