Urgent- how to turn off WIFI pls?

[pinkingshears]

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...

Emergency instructions pls?

Unplug the router and hide the cable

Just unplug it op

I just turn the router off at the socket.

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

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

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

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

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!

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....

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!

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

What internet provider do you have?

BT

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

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.

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

Sparklingbrook that's brilliant

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

I did this to DD then realised she had 4G

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 ...

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!

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.

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!

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?