Sharing Internet/WiFi with Lodger

stalkah

MobileSaver wrote: »

Citricsquid is correct, unless you deliberately made changes to your computer there is no way another computer sharing your network/broadband can see what is happening on your computer or access your files. (Of course if the other computer user knows your username/password then that's a different matter.)

That statement is completely incorrect!

Herbalus

kinger101 wrote: »

I think I'd prefer an avid !!!!!! viewer to be honest. I can understand someone getting excited by tits and a$$, but watching some middle aged men prattle on about cars..............makes you wonder ;-)

I take an objection to the notion that I get excited about prattling middle aged men like others get excited about "tits and a$$".....

That's not what I meant! :rotfl:

Niv

Herbalus wrote: »

I take an objection to the notion that I get excited about prattling middle aged men like others get excited about "tits and a$$".....

That's not what I meant! :rotfl:

I’ll get you a shovel…

Herbalus

Niv wrote: »

I’ll get you a shovel…

And a ladder please?

Oh, and someone recognise the irony of being so misunderstood when my original post was about being misunderstood...

RobertoMoir

stalkah wrote: »

That statement is completely incorrect!

It's probably closer to the truth than

Google it . "how to turn off file sharing on a network "

Also make sure remote desktop is not enabled

earlier on in the thread.

Unless the lodger knows a fair bit about networking, spoofing, etc. then I'd actually say that the lodger has more to worry about by using their LL's network than the LL has to worry about the lodger in this regard.

Actually this is quite an interesting question in terms of both security and enforcing 'acceptable use' of a shared connection; it is not that hard to get around a block enforced by setting OpenDNS as the router's DNS server and regardless of who was at fault and what could be proven in the end, there is no doubt that a lodger viewing 'dodgy' material on an internet connection taken out in the LL's name could cause the LL a few problems...

... but then so could a lodger who gets some old fashioned paper magazines from a questionable source and stores them in their room, and the nation somehow survived that.

dominoman

I wouldn't worry.

So long as you don't have a specific bandwidth limit let him do what he wishes. If he is doing something very dodgy you won't get in trouble personally. It will be traced to his PC.

I think you are over-worrying. People share internet connections all the time.

Pandilex

People have blown this way out of line, the police won't arrest you if he does something illegal simply because you share a connection!

Just plug him into your router and don't worry about it. It'll probably be fine. At worst he'll be a heavy user and you'll have to buy a slightly nicer router to give you options to configure that.

I wouldn't get a separate line for him anymore than I'd get him a PO box to ensure that any terrorist packages he mails out don't get traced back to you.

Dave_the_Ginger_Cat

I let my lodger share mine - no trouble at all

poppy10_2

Voyager2002 wrote: »

See if your connection can support two separate networks: this is something that Virgin Media have offered as part of upgrading my broadband package. That way, one user of your wi-fi cannot see material transmitted by the other, and if any undesirable internet use takes place it will be clear which user was responsible.

The last statement is not true. It will not be able to clarify who was looking at dodgy sites even if you use a separate guest network, if they are both using the same external internet connection

wymondham

Simple.. get a router that isolates all wifi devices so no traffic can pass between you. The Draytek Vigor 2830/2860 range do this and many others do I suspect also....