Giving wifi password to neighbours?
Discussion
My neighbour asked for mine as his is on the blink and a new router will not be delivered for a week. I said no on the basis that I have a NAS drive with all my personal details and stuff on it. I have to admit I was horrified at the thought of someone possibly having access into my NAS drive and PCs, but I felt awful about refusing as he is a good neighbour. He said he needs it to send invoices for work and I think he's got money trouble at the moment.
I'm actually considering nipping to Argos and buying him a dongle with a couple of gig on it. Computers don't appear to be his strong point and I doubt he is even aware of that as an option.
Now I'm wondering if he's wondering what I've got on my network that's such a big secret.
I'm actually considering nipping to Argos and buying him a dongle with a couple of gig on it. Computers don't appear to be his strong point and I doubt he is even aware of that as an option.
Now I'm wondering if he's wondering what I've got on my network that's such a big secret.
I once did this for a neighbour, who had just moved in. He was on a 3 week wait for his wifi set up, and I trusted him. Plus he drove a DC5 Teg, so he was sound in my eyes
The huge, if unlikely risk, is that if they use the internet in an illegal manner, it is your IP address attached to such activity.
The worst case scenario is that he is in to downloading kiddy porn, on your IP address, your door receives the beg red key by the police, word spreads, you get bricks through your window, a kicking when you go out in public etc.
As I say, unlikely, but worth the risk of fking up your life for?
The huge, if unlikely risk, is that if they use the internet in an illegal manner, it is your IP address attached to such activity.
The worst case scenario is that he is in to downloading kiddy porn, on your IP address, your door receives the beg red key by the police, word spreads, you get bricks through your window, a kicking when you go out in public etc.
As I say, unlikely, but worth the risk of fking up your life for?
His mobile phone has run out of data...
I was not aware of the guest wifi option, so thanks for that! I have gone into the router settings (it's a Vodafone Huawei model) and ticked the Split SSID option and it has set up a guest wifi and I have set a password. There were not any options to restrict access, but I have connected my PC to the guest wifi and I no longer have access to the NAS drive, so that's good.
I'm still not sure if it is entirely safe and I am not sure about giving him the guest password. The NAS drive is cable connected to the router if that makes a difference.
I was not aware of the guest wifi option, so thanks for that! I have gone into the router settings (it's a Vodafone Huawei model) and ticked the Split SSID option and it has set up a guest wifi and I have set a password. There were not any options to restrict access, but I have connected my PC to the guest wifi and I no longer have access to the NAS drive, so that's good.
I'm still not sure if it is entirely safe and I am not sure about giving him the guest password. The NAS drive is cable connected to the router if that makes a difference.
toastyhamster said:
If he has a laptop there's plenty of places with free wifi, or yeh, dongle.
It's a desktop PC. I have an old Talk Talk router he could use, but neither of us would know how to set it up and I'm not entirely sure if that's the main problem as I don't think he knew the right English words to describe the problem.Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
The huge, if unlikely risk, is that if they use the internet in an illegal manner, it is your IP address attached to such activity.
A number of years ago, some friends of mine used to find it amusing to open up a laptop of whichever friend's house they were in and use google to search for 'child porn'.They would find it hilarious and make jokes about trying to get each others house raided by the police.
I dont hang around with them anymore.
Lord Marylebone said:
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
The huge, if unlikely risk, is that if they use the internet in an illegal manner, it is your IP address attached to such activity.
A number of years ago, some friends of mine used to find it amusing to open up a laptop of whichever friend's house they were in and use google to search for 'child porn'.They would find it hilarious and make jokes about trying to get each others house raided by the police.
I dont hang around with them anymore.
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