Neighbour asked to scrounge our wifi
- Thread starter krisboats
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I've told the mrs she can tell the neighbour that we can't do it. If she asks why its because i'm hosting a web/email server and can't risk the server going down. Kind of true, as i'm hosting a friends mums B&b site while he has no internet, not the most important site in the world but she won't know it.
No connection sharing, the mrs saves face in front of new friend. Job done.
No connection sharing, the mrs saves face in front of new friend. Job done.
Good lord, you have the backbone of a jelly fish.
I hope for your sake she never shacks up with some scummy who looks at kiddy porn behind her back, cos trying not to get tarred by that particular brush will take some sodding effort.
Soldato
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No
I've let a neighbour use ours for a short while when he was between suppliers but I'd known him for several years.
Other option is setup a guest network, lock it right down and limit the bandwidth.......2kb should do
I've let a neighbour use ours for a short while when he was between suppliers but I'd known him for several years.
Other option is setup a guest network, lock it right down and limit the bandwidth.......2kb should do
Real helpful. It's not me that has to tell her, its my girlfriend. I just thought by saying no i was being a complete scrooge. The more i thought about it the more i was second guessing and wanting to be nice, but seeing as 99% of people have the same opinion as i first had i can live with it.
Good lord, you have the backbone of a jelly fish.
I hope for your sake she never shacks up with some scummy who looks at kiddy porn behind her back, cos trying not to get tarred by that particular brush will take some sodding effort.
I don't think wanting to see the good in everyone is a bad thing, naive maybe, but not bad. Besides, its a moot point as we've not given her access/an answer yet.
Lol. Cheers for the chuckle!
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I shared mine with a housemate back in 2005 (early days of wi-fi) as I knew him quite well, but wouldn't honour it for a neighbour. Said housemate did end up raping my bandwidth with Kazaa, Limewire etc but I soon found out about QoS and limited his bandwidth to half i.e. 2Mbit instead of the 4Mbit that we had back in those days. NTL medium package, £25/month before it became Virgin. I asked for £10/month for his share.
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I'm gonna go against the grain here and say no.
In reality I'd probably set up a guest network with adult filters and bandwidth restrictions, no p2p etc. Then say you can use it for a month until you get your own sorted. I'd have to know them though and be reasonably confident that they weren't scumbags. You seem to be reasonably confident that she is a scumbag though.
In reality I'd probably set up a guest network with adult filters and bandwidth restrictions, no p2p etc. Then say you can use it for a month until you get your own sorted. I'd have to know them though and be reasonably confident that they weren't scumbags. You seem to be reasonably confident that she is a scumbag though.
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wtf? lol
I wouldn't personally as whatever they get up to on your network ultimately falls down to you.Who knows what nasty things they could be looking at / downloading!
Set up a transparent proxy and redirect all their requests to the party of lemons page..
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Internet is like £15 a month...