Connecting to the internet with no hub?!

Owain_Moneysaver

If you have removed your router from the phoneline maybe he has plugged his own router into the line.

Follow the phoneline from where it comes into the house and you may find a box somewhere ...

If you have access to his PC you could try one of the IP tracing services such as

http://www.tracemyip.org/

and this should tell you which ISP or hostname he is connecting through.

RumRat

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Denying him an internet connection does not impinge on his rights to privacy.

No, but sneaking around behind his back with all this spying on his internet history etc is.

Stiggy

RumRat wrote: »

No, but sneaking around behind his back with all this spying on his internet history etc is.

if you have Internet access at work they have every right to monitor what you are doing.


However, I agree you should be upfront about it and say "As the parent who pays the bills, I reserve the right to monitor your Internet use".

RumRat

Stiggy wrote: »

if you have Internet access at work they have every right to monitor what you are doing.


However, I agree you should be upfront about it and say "As the parent who pays the bills, I reserve the right to monitor your Internet use".

You are correct, but, in the workplace they are open and honest about the fact that your connection will be monitored.
This person is being spied on......and not just by the NSA & GCHQ..

securityguy

"However, I agree you should be upfront about it and say "As the parent who pays the bills, I reserve the right to monitor your Internet use"."

As the parent who pays the water bill, I reserve the right to install a camera in the lavatory? You probably do have the right, but why would you do it?

"if you have Internet access at work they have every right to monitor what you are doing"

Aside from that being only partially true (Halford v UK, 1997), workplaces aren't houses. Parents aren't vicariously liable for the actions of their children, while companies can be liable for the actions of their staff.

I just don't get it. Why is the OP not capable of speaking to her son, rather than all this messing about? And why all this complication over a sixteen year old?

Gavin83

Stiggy wrote: »

if you have Internet access at work they have every right to monitor what you are doing.

At least they're up front about it though.

I would also guess he has his own router that he plugs in when you take yours away. He's really not that much of a whizz though otherwise you wouldn't know at all.

I'm curious though, why do you feel the need the restrict his internet access?

RumRat

securityguy wrote: »

"However, I agree you should be upfront about it and say "As the parent who pays the bills, I reserve the right to monitor your Internet use"."

As the parent who pays the water bill, I reserve the right to install a camera in the lavatory? You probably do have the right, but why would you do it?

"if you have Internet access at work they have every right to monitor what you are doing"

Aside from that being only partially true (Halford v UK, 1997), workplaces aren't houses. Parents aren't vicariously liable for the actions of their children, while companies can be liable for the actions of their staff.

I just don't get it. Why is the OP not capable of speaking to her son, rather than all this messing about? And why all this complication over a sixteen year old?

Secret monitoring in the workplace is rarely legal and certainly not in the toilets or private spaces.
As you say, not really the point..........He's 16...Why all this?

Jet

I have spoken with my son just a few weeks ago and we agreed some things together, he was very mature or seemed so but then obviously just went behind my back. I was worried about his only interest being the pc. Literally every minute on the pc. I simply want him to eat and sleep and realised his love of the pc was stopping these simple two essentials in life. He is taking his GCSE's and I simply want him to get enough sleep let alone revise properly! I am just a concerned Mum, I am not dictatorial and I am more than happy to make allowances and compromises, but I want him to look after himself.

I have never looked at his history before and there is nothing I am worried about content wise, but I am worried about sheer amount of time and the deceit. I looked at his history to simply see the timings of his internet activity.

I have turned off my partners office hub and my sons pc no longer connects to the home hub 3 or can see it so I presume he was connecting to that somehow despite the password being different to the password we have for the router?

getmore4less

Do you have any powerline adaptors in the house and the office?

Jet

getmore4less wrote: »

Do you have any powerline adaptors in the house and the office?

Yes I do, in the house