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Urgent- how to turn off WIFI pls?

60 replies

pinkingshears · 07/11/2017 19:59

Tech saddo - I dont know how.

Just told stroppy teen if he doesn't wash I will turn off wifi and he knows I don't know how... Blush

Emergency instructions pls?

OP posts:
MotherOfDragons22 · 07/11/2017 20:00

Unplug the router and hide the cable

Dobopdidoo1 · 07/11/2017 20:00

Just unplug it op

MrGrumpy01 · 07/11/2017 20:01

I just turn the router off at the socket.

ItsTimeForDuggee · 07/11/2017 20:01

It should have a button on the router if not unplug it?

WhoWants2Know · 07/11/2017 20:02

Hide the cord or he can plug it right back in.

abbsisspartacus · 07/11/2017 20:02

Pull the plug and in the future learn how to change the password

shakeyourcaboose · 07/11/2017 20:02

Who're you with? Yep you can just turn off at wall!

PumpkinSquash · 07/11/2017 20:08

Ooh, stroppy teen always getting threatened with no wifi here. We go through with it too if he's particularly obnoxious!
Literally just turn off and unplug the router box and hide it!

pinkingshears · 07/11/2017 20:13

THANK YOU!!!!

(had to type this in so he could see it. Little sod was laughing at me! Told him I would refer to The Power of Mumsnet and he was less than respectful. I called his bluff)

He is in the shower now.... Grin

OP posts:
HighburyHattie · 07/11/2017 20:15

Tbh I would go a step further and change the password - so you’re internet usage isn’t hindered and he can’t easily just turn it on and get access again, he’ll have to get the password from you!

HighburyHattie · 07/11/2017 20:15

Your*

pinkingshears · 07/11/2017 20:35

Ah. Now I genuinely DONT know how to change password?

OP posts:
OlennasWimple · 07/11/2017 20:38

What internet provider do you have?

pinkingshears · 08/11/2017 08:31

BT

OP posts:
Sparklingbrook · 08/11/2017 08:38

I have before now unplugged the router and taken it out shopping with me because of stroppy teens. Grin

abigamarone · 08/11/2017 08:42

You need to learn how to not only change the password, but the name of your WiFi too.
Something like "youllgetthepasswordwhenyouhaveashower" might be effective in your case.

CoughLaughFart · 08/11/2017 08:43

Maybe in the future don’t make threats he knows are empty?

girlinamber · 08/11/2017 08:44

Sparklingbrook that's brilliant

weaselwords · 08/11/2017 08:46

I have driven around with the Xbox in the boot of my car for similar reasons.

catsarenice · 08/11/2017 08:46

I did this to DD then realised she had 4G Blush

Pythonesque · 08/11/2017 08:48

When my sister and I were young, and had some days where we got home before our mother got back from work, our parents adapted the television cable with a lightbulb fitting I think so they could take a piece out and hide / remove it so we couldn't turn the TV on when we were supposed to be doing our homework ...

MurielsBottom · 08/11/2017 08:50

At the moment my threats to teenage DD consist of changing the netflix password. It has been changed so many times over the last few months I can never remember it myself! But it does work. I have also gone out taking the tv remote with me or on one occasion the router!

Fairyflaps · 08/11/2017 08:56

Here are the instructions on how to change the Wifi password for BT hubs. Not hard - but make sure a new password isn't one your teenager will guess too easily.

Changing the wifi password used to be my main sanction over my then teen a few years ago. Even when they had 4G, they still relied on wifi for a lot of their gadgets and gaming.

iknowimcoming · 08/11/2017 08:57

I have on occasion left the house with a keyboard, mouse, wii remotes, Nintendo Ds, mobile phone and iPad in the boot of my car - if I were pulled over by the police I assume they would think I’d done a house burglary if they looked in my boot! Teenage boys - gotta love em! Hmm

CryingShame · 08/11/2017 08:57

We're not at wifi stage yet but I have threatened to take the TV remote to work with me if dressing wasn't done sharpish - the control made it as far as the front door mat.

Maybe change the password each night so he has to earn it next day by getting up and showered and ressed by x o'clock?