To ask my new landlord to share his WiFi code for a week

[BackinLondon2019]

I'm moving to a new house later this week; owner lives right next door (semi-detached property). I've arranged for broadband to be installed but it's going to take two weeks, and I work from home so in a bit of a pickle. To add to the issue, I'm still waiting to hear about school places for the kids (will take at least two more weeks) so I can't decamp to a coffee shop for the day.

AIBU considering asking the owner the day I move in to share his WiFi password with me for just a week? Maybe I should offer to pay money for using it?

Soft play for an hour or two is a great idea thank you.

Fuzzy - there is no 'work' to go to, I'm home based. Why the anger?

Thank you. Hot spot with my mobile and some soft play with breakfast at coffee shops will work I think.

Thank you all for your advice

Library?

Don’t ask. Don’t put him in the position of having to refuse you.

You'd be brave to ask your new landlord tbh. I wouldnt.

Regarding school places, obviously I don't know what you've done via phone, but you might want to pester them a bit. Councils can be really slow with things. We've had to do it before. Kids cant be spending weeks out of education waiting for the council.

Check your hotspot works before you need to rely on it. When we moved, I couldn't get my laptop and phone to cooperate at all - I think the phone was the issue. (said phone is now my old phone, which I sometimes hotspot from my new phoe with no issues!)

If you think data will be eaten, find out if your provider does any data add ons or top ups.

It wouldn't bother me if I was the landlord, as long as I could still use my wifi myself. I would just ask. Everyone knows it takes a week or two to get sorted out.

McDonald’s generally have free WiFi, lunch there with the kids whilst you work and they can do some colouring?

Cafe and treat them to babycinno, they can bring books and feel grown up “working” too or revision books seeing as should be at school

Soft play/local play parks eg a big well known safari park near me personally has WiFi the whole site. Sit in the playpark and work.

National trust usually have WiFi and parks.

What about access to the cloud I think it’s called, not iCloud but “BT cloud” I think it is. Usually about £6 for 24h hour access in hotspots.

Hope this helps

The problems that can occur from this is people accessing illegal porn, paedophilic material, embarking in terrorist activity under your own IP address. Obviously I don’t think this is something you would do yourself so I’m not making accusations!

Only reason I mention this is that there is more to saying no than simply being tight or having concerns about the connection slowing down. It’s like lending someone a bank card to draw a tenner out and they’ll pay you back. If you trust them completely it shouldn’t be an issue but you’ve got little comeback or defence in the rare event they don’t stick to whatever deal you come up with