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.
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.techiedave said:
I'll be accused of racism but
Please don't do it
Just DO NOT take the risk. He may not be aware of what is ok to search for
I know I will get slagged for saying this but if his language is an issue then maybe his grasp of law is also an issue
I know I know (sigh). He probably thinks I'm a tPlease don't do it
Just DO NOT take the risk. He may not be aware of what is ok to search for
I know I will get slagged for saying this but if his language is an issue then maybe his grasp of law is also an issue
t now. He took delivery of my £400 Oculus Rift recently.ferrariF50lover said:
I snipped your quote because it was very long. I quoted your post only to show it was you specifically to whom I was replying. I apologise if it caused offence.
I'm aware of what you said originally, it was that which caused me to engage in conversion with you. It isn't any less of a sly racial dig second time round.
Searching for legitimate porn is common and simple. Pornhub, Porntube, Redporn, Pornporn, Redtube etc. Searching for child porn takes a specific act. It can't reasonably be done in innocence. You can't be on Pornhub, searching for a particular, legal, fetish and simply stumble upon a three year old being molested.
If, therefore, someone is downloading child porn, it is reasonable to assume they do so knowingly and wilfully.
Your suggestion, that because this chap has what appears to be a non White British accent he is more likely to search for these things, is clearly racially motivated. You trust this neighbour less because you think his heritage is non-British. That, for the avoidance of doubt, is racist.
As to speaking for all decent people; a sensible definition of 'decent' would have to include the finding of racist remarks unpleasant and ill-founded. I am confident that, given a list of 100 people you and I would both agree were decent, all of them would recoil from racial slurs. I stand by my assertion on that basis.
Finally, as to standing by your assertion that he *could* be a nonce. Quite right, he could. He could be the world's 8th best underwater chess player. He could be the 2nd cousin twice removed from William G Stewart. He could be The Stig. None of those things have any basis in his race or ethnicity, and in that regard, they are identical to his proclivity towards child porn.
To be fair, he didn't make a racial slur, he pointed out people from different countries will have lived under different laws than we do. Millions of people around the world live under laws that allow them to have sex with pre pubescent children.I'm aware of what you said originally, it was that which caused me to engage in conversion with you. It isn't any less of a sly racial dig second time round.
Searching for legitimate porn is common and simple. Pornhub, Porntube, Redporn, Pornporn, Redtube etc. Searching for child porn takes a specific act. It can't reasonably be done in innocence. You can't be on Pornhub, searching for a particular, legal, fetish and simply stumble upon a three year old being molested.
If, therefore, someone is downloading child porn, it is reasonable to assume they do so knowingly and wilfully.
Your suggestion, that because this chap has what appears to be a non White British accent he is more likely to search for these things, is clearly racially motivated. You trust this neighbour less because you think his heritage is non-British. That, for the avoidance of doubt, is racist.
As to speaking for all decent people; a sensible definition of 'decent' would have to include the finding of racist remarks unpleasant and ill-founded. I am confident that, given a list of 100 people you and I would both agree were decent, all of them would recoil from racial slurs. I stand by my assertion on that basis.
Finally, as to standing by your assertion that he *could* be a nonce. Quite right, he could. He could be the world's 8th best underwater chess player. He could be the 2nd cousin twice removed from William G Stewart. He could be The Stig. None of those things have any basis in his race or ethnicity, and in that regard, they are identical to his proclivity towards child porn.
Enough Brits get caught out by indecency laws in middle eastern countries, either through ignorance or not taking the law seriously, so it is not inconceivable that it could happen the other way around.
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