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 😣

It's been the best part of a week. if they were going to sort it they would have done it by now.

Change the password.

Oh - sorry - you've done it.

As you were.

English people are so un-neighbourly

What a ridiculous thing to say!

Is it sorted yet?

Change the password.
I’d have said yes if the boy was trying to finish some homework and their link had failed. For one or two days, and one device. But not the whole household.

Not the point of the thread, but the two posters saying the neighbour could be downloading “child porn” - there’s no such thing.

They are images of child sexual abuse.

Absolute madness! Not only because of them using up all of your allowance or possibly downloading illegal stuff or googling how to join a far right group which would put you on a prevent watch list and possibly getting raided (happened to friends of ours after their young teenager with ASD did exactly this as he wanted to learn about the nazis for a school project) but also, the more devices you a hooked on to your router using your WiFi, then the slower it will run - there is only a certain amount of bandwidth and each device will take some, so therefore running slower all the time-is they already have for devices on it, how many do you have attached? We sometimes have to stop our kids from messing on their phones when we are watching something.

Change your password immediately! As the previous poster says, you've no idea what they are downloading, and even if everything's fine, they are still using your bandwidth. Just no.

Should not have given it to them in the first place, but now you have, just change the password - when they ask, well, that is up to you, but I would be tempted to inform them that it is a service you pay for and they are not entitiled to use it free of charge. sort their own.

Get sky called and never let them usr it again ... CF

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

It is not stingy and it could do plenty of harm. No way would I let a neighbour freeload off my internet, so include Scottish in your ridiculous un-neighbourly assumption.

I'd turn it off every time you leave the house, randomly, and at night for a couple of days. If they ask, say you switch it off when you're not at home/asleep/not using it. They'll soon give up!

Or change the password and feign surprise. "Oh, my laptop is still connecting. How odd!"

hope you get things sorted.

Our old neighbour in our apartment got shitty with me when the WiFi password changed. Or more correctly when we protected it. He asked for the password as otherwise he’d have to pay for his own....! I said he could if he paid me 50% of the cost for the time he’d been using it. Funnily enough....he got his own.

Tell them the internet has stopped working as they've taken you over the download limit.

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

Where did OP say they are English? They might be but they could equally be Irish or Scottish or American or Australian or Canadian or they could be from another country and fluent in English.
How very rude of you.

I think the OP was generous to let them use it at all but now they are taking the piss downloading all sorts of stuff. They've had enough time to set up their own internet. Why on earth should OP pay for them to use her internet while they save that money to spend on something else?

Every internet device a unique MAC address, (Media Access Control). The setup system, accessed via the web browser allows you to lock out all MAC addresses except your own. It is an additional level of security and ensures privacy even if they know your password.

Has a MAC address.

@TartanMarbled

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

Sod that. If people want WiFi they can pay for it like the rest of us.

I am very good friends with all my neighbours, and I would never, ever dream of asking to use their internet if mine was down, we would go without until it was fixed - CAF. Kick them off.

She's up all night, so just switch the router off when you go to bed. She'll get pissed off that she can't be online and sort her own broadband out.

We turn ours off every night because it's directly under DS's bed and he says he can hear high pitched sounds coming from it (sensory issues, he's extremely sensitive to sound). It's never harmed our router to have it switched off all night.

OP any update?

I think we can presume that the OP is reconnected or perhaps out at work;)

I've never used a Sky router we have a more industrial multiple WAN input version here where we can set up several users with differing access rights and privilges such as a "Guest" one for vistors but they can only access the net with some sites prohibited. Their access can time out if so required tho i believe that some "as supplied" routers can now permit the usuage of more then one SSID so you can have such as Hiswi-fi and Herwi-fi.

Very usefull if relatives are coming to stay etc.

However the OP's 50 GB limit sounds very "mean" these days. Severel other providers are out there such as Zen Internet who are excelent and these days Vodaphone are in the markert at around 23 quid a month for line and broadband service. Also old Virgin do very fast rates but are a shade expensive and out our way their digging up some villages like demented rabbits to lay Fibre to the home access, up to a Gigabit speeds!.