To think friend was being a bit tight over internet password

[CadgingCarol]

Name changed as I'm an over sharer.
Anyway I had some issues with paying my internet account recently basically direct debit hadn't come out and I'd been cut off long story!

I was stuck at home on my own with the kids, my older dc was going on and on and on about internet being cut off stress. I thought I'll ring up and pay to get it back on etc but realised I couldn't transfer the money as no internet! My phone internet wouldn't work either.
I thought shit, I messaged my friend who lives close and I'm a round about way asked her if I could borrow her internet password to get things sorted,
Her reply was "sorry I don't want to give it out" now we've been friends for over 4 years have each other kids do stuff etc etc so I was quite shocked at her response. It's basically saying she doesn't trust me isn't it?
Yes the internet being back on wasn't urgent but I still needed it back on ASAP. I wouldn't have given a second thought to giving a "friend" the password so aibu to think she isn't really a friend as she didn't help me out when I was in the shit?

Can't see the issue, I happily give out the Wi-Fi password to guests or visitors, I'm not daft enough to use the same password for emails/private stuff. It can easily be changed if needed.

I couldn't leave the house as was there on my own. Obviously I wouldn't have been cadging her bloody internet for life as mines a packedge and plus I'm not like that she should know this.

How would having her internet password help you access the Internet from your house?!

You have been cut off for non-payment -it strongly looks like you were trying to freeload her wifi for your household rather than paying for it yourself?

Why didn't you go to the library and use their wifi?

"can I have your internet password, the one that also belongs to your private emails from this company...."

really? we use different passwords for everything

Sorry but I wouldn't trust you either. Your user name is cadging carol for goodness sake.

I don’t get this, or the replies... if you had her WiFi password, wouldn’t you only be able to use it at her house or extremely close by?? If you lived in a semi detached, maybe she wouldn’t, but if you live down the road or whatever, you can’t use her WiFi in your house, can you??

Because I was on my own with kids/baby and I live rural so no free wifi. I don't really get what people don't understand I needed to borrow the internet to sort bill etc out.
If that was me I'd help a friend out. Like dp said she trust me with her kid but not her internet 🤔

My friends and I trust each other. So if I go to their houses my phone automatically logs on to their Wi-Fi as at some point in the past I have asked for and they have given me their password. So I don't think it's a big ask of a friend personally.

You also said your friend lives close,vso you intended using her WiFi from your home. It's all very well saying you wouldn't do that, ie use it for evermore...but how can she trust that?!

If everyone on sky looks on the side of the internet box that's the password, my sons friends etc use it when ever they need to I don't give a shit who knows it.

Ah maybe I’ve misunderstood, if you’re close enough that you can then use her WiFi from your house then no, I wouldn’t give you the password either!

TABBY because she's a friend and knows I'm not like that.

You lack grace. You put someone on the spot and being a bit shitty about it when they did not want do it. Others have mentioned that there are plenty of places with free Wifi access. Don't make your problems someone else's

How close do you live?! Unless you're next door I can't see how that would work anyway?

Why couldn't you just drive to somewhere where there is free WiFi either that night or the next day....maccies, Costa, anywhere....

I just use the default password for my Wi-Fi it's on the chalkboard in my kitchen & any of my family & friends are welcome to use it.

How close do you live to her?

I don't ha e anywhere near with wifi o live rural that's why I couldn't even get phone internet working. I assumed a friend wouldn't think twice about helping. But that's me.

But how can you access her wifi if you're not in the same house/next door?
I really don't understand

What Snowiest said - I wouldn't give my Wi-Fi password to a neighbour no matter how friendly we were, unless I was intending to change it imminently.

I don’t understand how you can use her WiFi?

I didn't want to say to much but she lives a door or so down her internet comes up on my suggested connections when I click on mine.

If you and the kids had popped next door to hers and you'd used her wifi there then that's a totally different thing. My phone automatically connects to my friends wifi and vice Versa.

However, if you're not close enough to do that but can pick up their signal and have then asked for her password YABU.

I'm assuming that by 'internet password' you're referring to her wifi code?
Or is it something like a BT hotspot that customers can use if they're out and about?

Not everyone uses the logins that are printed on the side of the router. Some people know enough about how their router works to be able to change this information for something more private.

I personally wouldn't have an issue sharing my wifi password, however, I know some people use the same password for their wifi as they do for their online banking.