Should I feel guilty?

Voltar said:
Disconnect them. Then show the B****** the tenancy agreement, which I presume does not have her name on it. It doesn't matter if you don't like each other: what matters is the rent to the landlord.
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The truth!!!

I just can't be bothered with the up roar.. Or the fact that they keep pet rats!!

I have joked about this before.. I do feel we are in an unfortunate position with them. I had only met this guy once before moving in and was assued he was 'cooool' he seemed a bit odd buy 'alright' to me.. Low and behold when it came to moving in with him and then his gf magically appears my freinds soon changed their mind about how cool he was :p





and thanks for the other replies guys (and girls?) I feel much better about it now :p
 
Pho said:
QoS :p
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platypus said:
Decent router, QoS, throttle any non standard ports.
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Not sure I can do this on the router we have.. Please be aware the person doesnt even realise I have access to the router... I some how think he will be suspicious if I turn up and say "use this router instead"

We are using a "netgear wgr614v9" and as far as I can see I am only able to stop connections rather than throttle them which is what I originally indeded to do :(

edit: btw networking is one of my weaker areas :p
 
Kell_ee001 said:
Have you just tried asking them to disconnect for a night so you can play games?
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No because they will say "I only leave it downloading at night" and tbh it's easier and funnier this way :p

lets not forget educational either.. I find it funny I would rather go to the effort of 'hacking in' to effectively my own router and stealing my own connection rather than bothing to speak to them about it.
 
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They keep pet rats too? ******* hell, how in God's name have you put up with these jokers for so long (ie. more than 5 minutes). Bet keeping pets aint in the Tenancy Agreement either :rolleyes:

Don't know how your mates convinced you to live with this person (now these personS, to your chagrin) after meeting him just once.

To do that (be convinced) and to not have done something about them by now shows that:

They don't respect you.
You are a pushover and they know it.
Both.


The fact that you go for underhand techniques like this shows perhaps you should take yourself a bit more seriously fella. No one deserves to live where they aren't listened to (you:'I don't want to live with xyz' them: 'go on xyz= well safe etc etc) and are even pushed to one side as the others don't want to get into arguments on your (their actual friends') behalf.

Your mates who live with you are rotten if they haven't or won't do something about it or even just ignore the problem... They're probably just glad that it's not their problem.

Tenancy agreement. Make everyone a copy. Post into the offender's room. 24 hours later, tell them the problem and solution. Call the CAB and the landlord. Kick the rats and the girl out and work out an even solution for the bills etc or use the 6-month break clause (CAB will inform you and your landlord will understand) and get them to pay for it (your future rent installments) themselves or get a new housemate.
You have rights you know.
 
Voltar said:
They keep pet rats too? ******* hell, how in God's name have you put up with these jokers for so long (ie. more than 5 minutes). Bet keeping pets aint in the Tenancy Agreement either :rolleyes:

Don't know how your mates convinced you to live with this person (now these personS, to your chagrin) after meeting him just once.

To do that (be convinced) and to not have done something about them by now shows that:

They don't respect you.
You are a pushover and they know it.
Both.


The fact that you go for underhand techniques like this shows perhaps you should take yourself a bit more seriously fella. No one deserves to live where they aren't listened to (you:'I don't want to live with xyz' them: 'go on xyz= well safe etc etc) and are even pushed to one side as the others don't want to get into arguments on your (their actual friends') behalf.

Your mates who live with you are rotten if they haven't or won't do something about it or even just ignore the problem... They're probably just glad that it's not their problem.

Tenancy agreement. Make everyone a copy. Post into the offender's room. 24 hours later, tell them the problem and solution. Call the CAB and the landlord. Kick the rats and the girl out and work out an even solution for the bills etc or use the 6-month break clause (CAB will inform you and your landlord will understand) and get them to pay for it (your future rent installments) themselves or get a new housemate.
You have rights you know.
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Although I agree with the majority of what you say.. I don't think it is fair to say I'm a pushover. I can not be bothered to kick up a fuss although it would give me a smile :).... My other housemates have been pushovers as although they were arguing and I told them directly not to pay.. They decided to pay because it was 'only £60 or so' for the bills. I have not paid a penny and will not do so for the rest of the tenancy agreement.

I mainly dislike living with them because they act like parents not students.

Also I'm intrested in this 6 month break clause!... Googling now!!
 
Not all tenancy agreements will actually have one. Sometimes you have to ask to add it on (which you are entitled to) on signing the contract. Yours might not have it. Check through the document. If you find it then you can raise a little hell or dirty some anti-social undies :p

I made sure that we got one just in case. I'm pleased to say that we don't really need one :)
 
Just build a network box that manages traffic properly, divide the bandwidth equally between everyone so no one can download at insane speeds while other people are also using the internet, but they can still make use of other peoples unused bandwidth.
 
Have you tried just asking them if they mind laying off the leeching while you play a few games?

Thinking about it, in a funny sort of way I'm glad broadband wasn't really available when I lived in a shared house. We had Home Highway (dual ISDN) which meant that when I was gaming, I had a dedicated low-latency channel, while the others could share the other line if they wanted.

In a similar vein you could look at getting your own dedicated internet connection if gaming means a lot to you (e.g. have both Cable and DSL).
 
personally i dont see him doing anything wrong.

gaming doesnt kill the internet for EVERYONE else.

downloading KILLS the internet FOR EVERYONE else.

imo, your not in the wrong, your house mates are, regardless of if everyone pays for the connection.
 
One word:

Netlimiter

Solved all my bandwidth leeching flatmate issues and didn't result in anyone getting a deminished service; it simply allows you to limit how much upstream or downstream traffic certain apps can use. I limited the upstream for torrent to 5k on each computer and all gaming issues were solved. As it limits bandwidth without the torrent app knowing off it, it also doesn't affect their potential downstream traffic so i chucked a reasonable limit on that (like, 200k each for 3 people on a 20meg line)
 
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