Aibu to switch off the broadband CF Neighbours

[Cheekyneighbour]

So long story short aibu to switch off my router as we have kindly let next door use the internet as theirs was down.

The mother (who has not so much as said hello since we moved here) sent her son round last Saturday to ask and my dp said yes, I have checked our settings and they are hooked up to a fire stick and about 3 phones.

I’m not being unreasonable to think if we let her use it she won’t get her own internet sorted out if she has access to ours - I suspect it is due to a billing issue as the mother is constantly having very late nights as my dp will hear her and her friends still up at 5.30am when he gets up. I will also add the mother does work.

Aibu? I do feel a bit guilty on her kids 😣

As said above internet isn't essential, yes, for a long amount of time it is but for a few days they should be finding alternatives or living without , it's not like water or electricity!!! Definitely change and say yours must be down too. Cfs!!

I have googled it and it’s given and a generic username and password to sign in with however it doesn’t let me sign in but I don’t want to try it too many times incase it blocks me out of it! Unless the neighbours have pulled a fast one and changed it already 🤨 I’m going to ring the supplier tomorrow and get it sorted

Crikey - change password immediately, bonkers to let someone you don't know have it

The correct username and password to log in are usually on a sticker on the router, next to the WiFi password.

You're crazy to let them use it when you don't even know them. What if they're doing dodgy things and it's tracked to your internet connection.

@TartanMarbled I don't think it's stingy at all. The OP kindly let them use it, probably thinking they need it so end emails etc. Instead, they're all sat using it like they own it. What if she has download limits?

If you have never changed your internet password it is probably on the back on your router. Changer it now.

My colleague shared their internet access with an upstairs neighbour who was downloading some awful things and colleague subsequently spent a considerable amount of time at a police station trying to prove their innocence.

@TartanMarbled I think we have been neighbourly letting them use it for this amount of time, we are not a bloody charity and don’t see why we should be providing internet to the neighbours free of charge.

@malmi I have tried this one also, but it doesn’t let me in just says the password is unencrypted so I have no idea what to do

This seems really stingy. What harm is it doing you? English people are so un-neighbourly.

Well I’m Irish and you can lick my sweaty left armpit if you think I’m lending out my WiFi willy nilly. Balls to that.

Maybe the mum is punishing the kids by removing the WiFi and the kid was quite resourceful in asking a neighbour?

I did this years and years ago, cheeky fucker that I was. I went round my then neighbours and asked her (we were pally) to give me her wifi code because I didn't have the Internet and I'd just bought an iPhone. She was really funny with me and said no and I thought at the time she was being a "knob" I honestly couldn't see the problem. I was probably mid 20s at the time. I still cringe over it today and would slap myself if I could go back in time!

Because the neighbours could be doing all sorts of nefarious activities on the internet, and it would all be traced back to the OP. All internet providers tell you not to share your password.

It has nothing to do with being unneighbourly or stingy. You wouldn't't share your bank details with your neighbours would you?

@BanKittenHeels this Is one of my concerns, hopefully once it’s changed the mother will get her priories straight and not send the young boy round for me to say no to his face 😣

Surely most people (except dh and ds,) have data on their mobiles.
You have been more than generous.
Change the password, plenty of good suggestions on here lol.
Tell your dh enough is enough, especially as you barely have spoke.

Who provides your WiFi? I'm sure someone on here will know how to help you do it online!

Switch them off. If they query it, your internet is down too because you didn't realise you're limited on download/data and used all your allowance 😂

But what harm is it doing you?

It’s sky - google tells me to enter an IP address into my browser and log in with username admin and password sky but it doesn’t let me in just says the password is unencrypted. Checked my emails
To see if a password has been sent to me but not had anything through

my dp said yes as he felt sorry for the son who is around 11 as he said if ours was ever to be down and his child couldn’t play on his xbox or whatever he would hope that a neighbour would do the same for us

It's hardly food and water. Your child could survive without an xbox.

@TartanMarbled

I’m not a charity and as pp have pointed out they could be downloading anything round there and it takes the piss they would rather use my internet than get their own sorted.

I have a friend who's son, once he's on a network, can copy every key stroke or search put in via the router. He started doing this at age 10. He thought it was hilarious until he showed me a picture of my bank statement and I lost my shit.
This includes all open networks, like trains, hotels, apartment complexes, bars, cafes. Really, you should never share your WiFi password or sign into secure sites on an open network.

Can you get into your sky account and change the password from there or is there a my devices section where you can see what is connected

Switch the router off untill you can talk to Sky

Are you the OPs neighbour TartanMarbled?