Should I feel guilty?

gareth.e

gareth.e

gareth.e

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Well tonight at 12 I'm going to kick everyone off our (now my) internet connection so I can actually play some games online!
( I might allow some ports like (e.g 80) but everyone just rapes our intenet connection with dowloading 24/7)
The person with the router in their room won't know I've got access to the router and with any luck my plot will go unnoticed! Now the question is..

Is this morally wrong? :p
 
Eh? If I'm right, does this mean that people are lawfully connected to a shared (communal) connection? Do you solely pay for the internet?

I'd say that it's highly antisocial to do that plan of action if it's all shared. Just make them switch off their downloads for the night instead rather than being quite so ghey about it ;)


If I'm wrong however, then happy gaming :D
 
i presume this is shared accommodation. if you split the internet bill equally between you, you're a **** :p
 
Can your router not just share the connection out anyway? TBH I'd kick your a$$ if you stole my internetz for some stupid game. If your at uni what if one of them has an exam / test / tutorial the next day and needs to download some notes etc...
 
it depends how well you get along with your housemates..
when one of mine was seeding some files, i reduced his upload rate to 2kb/s when he wasn't around.. :p
 
I do it sometimes.

Not had to do it this Uni Year, but last Uni Year it was impossible to do anything as we spent the majority of the time throttled and it was hard to get a ping of under 100 since one flatmate who no longer lives here torrenting constantly. I'd just unplug upstairs from the router in my room and play for a while :)
 
Well it gets trickier yet..

It's between 5 of us at the moment but will become 6 again soon.. 2 of them appear to be out at the moment and If either of them require access I will grant them it.. It's mainly kicking of the guy that 'manages it'

The guy who 'manages it' has the router in his room (along with his gf 24/7).. We all live in a house and for some reason when we moved in it would be understood that she will pay all the bills however it came to a shock to us when they turned round and said you owe use '£xx'

Now there was a bit of a fuss.. She's getting away with paying just 1/5 of bills dispite she was over ruled living in a house we had already chosen and it was agreed she wouldn't be paying rent but approx £40 a week to cover the bills.. My other housemates have given in despite initially saying no ******* right off. (this resulted in one of my housemates making her cry lol, then they came up with an argument "why do you care your parents pay the rent" no they dont lol) Where as I have just ignored them (Am I a **** for this?) Since initally asking for monies they have never asked me again just spoken to other housemates saying I havent paid yet..

Sooo Technically however you view it I might not even be entitled to use the connection. By the way I am not a ****** and my other housemates are on my side. It's basically Us v them.
 
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My housemate used to torrent as well:mad: Dirty form of downloading imo. We shared the bill so i had to convince him to use usenet and rapidshare (a long process as paying for a service was like holy water to the devil :p).

He now gets what he wants in a fraction of the time and everyone is happy. I have no problem waiting an hour, if i want to play online, but i had a major problem with this 24/7 sucking up every bit of bandwidth tbh. I own the router and could have used qos but as we both pay i did not think it was fair.

To answer your question. Whoever pays the bills gets to say how it is used imo, but im sure if he is a reasonable guy/guys then he/they will stop for a couple of hours
 
Do it. I used to do it. It's unfair that they prevent you doing what you want all the time by downloading.

At least they can download whilse you lot sleep.
 
Ah, the plot thickens.

Tbh the internet isn't what I'd be looking at. I'd not be a happy bunny if someones gf got to live with us despite no one wanting her there. She's selfish and your housemate is a selfish **** for doing it regardless.

I'd have found every possible way of getting her removed from the house by now, especially if my other housemates were in accordance. At the end of the day d/c'ing their internetz for one night doesn't compare to the affront of your housemate, and the offence caused by having someone who you don't want living with you against your wishes.

For me a house share should only be with close friends and people who will understand private space. I'm sorry to hear of the situation mate.

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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