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AIBU about Wi-Fi

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Tangledfairy · 15/05/2017 21:00

We have new neighbours moving in next door, literally just said hello to them this evening on the doorstep. They have just knocked on the door and asked if we would do them a favour and let them use our WiFi until their broadband is connected next week.

I have said no as I have no idea who they are but my DP thinks I am being unneighbourly and that we should let them because they are our neighbours.

I don't want to be a bad neighbour but I have only just met them!

WIBU to say no?

OP posts:
emmyrose2000 · 16/05/2017 03:39

YANBU

They've got a cheek asking a complete stranger for this.

VanillaSugar · 16/05/2017 04:30

Placemarking. Will be back later with a long story. But don't! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@!!!

MakeUpMyRoom · 16/05/2017 04:57

I think you're un-neighbourly. Yes, they could slow the network down streaming HD TV on multiple devices, but worrying about anything else is unrealistic.

"So they download something dodgy and you can't prove it's not you?"

a) you don't have to. That's the wonderful thing about our legal system.

b) there are very clever people and very technical ways to find out who downloaded and accessed what, where and when.

Collaborate

You could limit the access to your NAS in about 20 seconds. Maybe 5 minutes if you needed to watch a youtube video to learn how first.

Also it makes all the computers on your network vulnerable to a hack.

Nonsense.

Rainbunny

Do you know what brute-forcing means? Why would they do that inside the network as opposed to doing it to the network.

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The real people who have anything to worry about here are the nieghbours.

I was a speaker about a similar subject at a conference a couple of years ago. To make a point, I set up a free, open and appropriately named wifi hot spot in the morning. I was first to talk in the afternoon and showed (anonymized) data on a 20' x 20' screen showing who had accessed what sites and when and other data like usernames and passwords in the morning. Hundreds of people! It had portal page where people chose a username, supplied and email address and a password to access the wifi. This wasn't stored but could have been. I asked the room who had used the password for their email address and there was a quiet shuffling of feet. They realised they'd theoretically given me email addresses and linked passwords.

Even in a room of IT professionals, the consequences of joining an untrusted network had passed them by.

tl;dr

Be wary of joining networks. With a few minutes of learning, you can set up security properly so that you can allow neighbours to access it for the short term without worrying.

You should limit access and folder properties anyway. On the NAS drive mentioned by a PP, you don't want anyone to have edit permissions anyway.

BoomBoomsCousin · 16/05/2017 05:37

I'd set up a separate network for them and keep an eye on the amount they downloaded, as although we have unlimited, it gets throttled after a certain amount. But I would let them as it's a pain when moving to have pay for a generally poorer service and the cable companies seem to be really resistant to making sure you have uninterrupted service and I think it's neighbourly. With neighbours I tend to start with assuming the best about them until proved otherwise.

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