Neighbours and my WIFI

[Imrubbishatuserables]

Hey!
Straight to point I got a new neighbour in my block of flat a few months ago and she asked for my wifi password to connect her console to so they could watch netflix.. i thought why not.. one other thing connected to it wont harm and she has just moved in.. it's her first home she hasn't had chance to set up her own yet. She then gets a new tv in the last few weeks and connects to my wifi but she has also connected her phone and her mates phone to it as well as they are picking up our google speakers on the network her mate joked they should play songs through my sons one in his room from their phones. So I have no idea how to change the password but would I be unreasonable to turn it off every night at 8PM? Considering we are in lockdown and she cant get her own during this time as they will need to come and connect it up. Previous tenant in that flat never had wifi either.

As far as im aware she can still get hers set up, i had an engineer out to fix mine last week

She has changed the name of the router!

On Sunday night about an hour and a half after the first posted and at the same time as she changed the password. About three hundred posts ago!

@MacBlank, you need to reflect on the irony of telling someone to "Stop being so bloody stupid" whilst at the same time making yourself look stupid by failing to read all their posts.

Come on, OP, surely she's come sniffing around for the new password by now? Update please!

She's probably clocked that she gave the game away with her comments on OP's child and will keep her head down.

All the people coming up with “just tell her .....” excuses........ erhm, wtf. Stop being so British.
Just tell her nothing. If she comes sniffing, just say she’ll need to get her own. It’s time. Bet you she’ll sort that out in less than 24 hours

@Seashells106

I did not "rush" to the end of the thread after posting I was not aware my original answer was the same reply as previous comments. Guilty as charged! What are u implying?

I find that people who don't RTFT often post and then scroll to the end of the thread and see what others have posted in response to their own post. You want everyone else to read your posts but you don't want to read the OPs or anyone else's.

Change the password, OP.

Stop being so British.

We seem to be the only nationality that gives this advice to ourselves

You did a nice thing, she took advantage.
Don't feel bad at all OP. She had plenty of time to sort WiFi before the lockdown began so she can't complain I think she would have just kept using yours for as long as she could. You did the right thing changing the password.

She'll be using her data up at the minute and probably not realising. I'd expect a visit today when her data runs out ....

Now, I think the best thing you can do is change your password OP. I’m surprised all the messages you’ve already had and I haven’t read, have failed to come up with this idea. Alternatively you could burn her house down as this will buy you time while she’s distracted away from the wifi issue.

I think I’ve spent too long inside my own home as I’m weirdly invested in how your CF neighbour is going to broach the disappearance of her free wifi!

Also....if your neighbour is doing something illegal (Phishing, Pharming), child pornography etc, and they look at the IP address and it comes back to your place of residence, that might be a bit tricky.

Also, if you do work from home, what's to say your neighbour is not accessing your work or other things e.g. financial data?

Speak to your ISP or do an internet search and find out how to change the password. If it is an older hub box, your provider may provide one free of charge with a new wifi box anyway as they have a limited life span.

There is a reason WiFi has a password. The same reason your door has a key.

find out how to change the password

Gosh, if only someone else had thought of that in over 300 posts.
Even better if the OP had actually done that.

MASSIVE CLUE: THEY HAVE/SHE HAS

What a pity that nobody else has reminded posters that it has already been suggested and acted upon - oh....wait.

I think I'm going to hide the thread.

I don't mind the tongue in cheek 'cancel the cheque' change the password posts.

But the sheer quantity of people that haven't RTFT is astounding and I can't be bothered any more!

I wonder if you should change the password?

One has to hope that the "not bothered to read" brigade aren't the same people that are handing out advice on the CV threads.

This has reminded me actually of when I lived in a block of flats and someone had changed their network name to "STOP USING MY WIFI" but hadn't set up a password!

I'd be changing the name of the router daily just for fun.
Today it could be
DontGiveYourWifiPasswordToTheCheekyMareAtNumber34

Imrubbishatuserables Change asap she asked for herself and gave it too her friend, very cheeky, as she is using yours she does not have to get her own does she?

maybe this will help, good luck,
See www.directsavetelecom.co.uk/broadband_router.php.

OP- is your internet super quick now that others aren't sucking the life out of it?

change it, turn it off - just don't let her use it! Yes it was a kind thing to do but also a bit naïve - you have no idea who she is and what she is getting up to on your wifi. As for hooking up her friends - that is bang out of order. Joking about playing her music through your son's speakers - that would have been instant cut off! Who knows what she could be playing through it! Absolutely no way no how would she be using it a second more.

You can get wifi dongels so she wouldn't need anyone to set it up. Her lack of wifi isn't your issue and she will no doubt throw a massive strop but hey ho - she's an adult she needs to sort it out herself.

Jesus OP. That was not a good decision in the first place.

It's absolutely not safe to do this and it isn't your problem to sort out her WIFI.

Surprised she hasn't been round yet. Entitled bafoon