To NOT get WIFI??

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Me and my DP have a phone each with more than enough data to use when we are at home for internet etc. We have 3 TVs throughout the house with more than enough channels, a DVD player and a PS4 with mass amounts of dvds and games. We have never felt the need to pay an addition cost for sky/virgin/WiFi

My DP has an 11 year old son who comes to ours every other weekend and twice each week on week nights. Since he got his own phone and iPad for his birthday we allow him to connect to our data so he can use them to play on games and access the internet.

I am just about fed up of hearing his comments about us not having WiFi or sky ‘you’re like old people’ ‘it’s just stupid’ ‘I guess I’ll have to waste my mobile data AGAIN’ ‘oh great we have to watch NORMAL tv’ ‘god sake I can’t play online here on PS4’

Really!!?? I’ve told him to doesn’t know how lucky he is! He just roles his eyes at me. My DP doesn’t say anything to his comments, and tells me that’s kids nowadays!

Maybe it is but it still frustrates me!

AIBU???

God, life without WiFi is like life without water. You need water to survive. Buy the bloody WiFi, it’s not 1998 anymore.

But surely that's not the question the OP was asking and nor is it the problem of her dss if THEY (the OP and her DH) have decided to use mobile connexion rather than broadband??

But it sounds like she's just being stubborn and awkward for the sake of it. Why would you willingly pick the slower and more expensive option? It makes no sense!

I accept some places have crap broadband connection, but OP never mentioned anything about that, nor about the cost. She just said "I like it the way it is" without any thought for her step-sons wants and needs.

You sound selfish op and a bit cruel . He has a PS4 and isn't allowed wifi ? Seems like you are just trying to prove that you can manage just to make a point . You work long hours etc , so what ? Why shouldn't your son get a say ? And it's bit silly to deprive him of something because others get by with less when you can happily afford it and are probably paying a fortune in data .

Er no, we didn't have wifi when I was a kid and I didn't play any sports, hardly went outside etc etc.

I'm still like that, I'm a lazy introvert and I like my duvet, my tea and my internet

Me too. I read and watched TV most of the time.

Now, DS plays with his friends online, which is actually more sociable than how I was.
And he still practices a sport.

I agree with you OP. I find the obsession with constant access to devices and internet depressing.

Just because you have wifi it doesn't mean you're constantly using a device, that's as silly as OP thinking that those with wifi don't get any fresh air or exercise.

But Schinky you’re not “with” the OP at all. She is v much obsessed with devices and net connections. She supplied us with a long list of all the devices she, her husband and their own son use and how their current connections are suitable. It is only her stepson who is unhappy bc he can’t use his ps4 without wifi nor watch Netflix etc. The op’s stance is that it’s too bad. As long as she, her husband and her own child are happy, her stepson”s needs are irrelevant.

The wifi is a red herring. This is about a stepmother engaged in a power play with a visiting stepson.

I think the op should read.

I don’t care abuf my dss’s meeds. Aibu?

I do agree you sound very young and needing to grow up.

I agree @LaughingElliot it has power play written all over it. She obviously doesn't want him visiting or she would do this one tiny thing to make him happy and comfortable . Not to mention the homework issues and the consoles.
I'm so glad my stepdad isn't like that. He treats me like his own and cares

Going against the grain but we don't have WiFi and I have 2 teenagers.