Would you share your Wi-Fi with your neighbour?

MattMattMattUK

No, for a multitude of reasons. 

searchlight123

Andy_L said:

IIRC from previous discussions its likely to be a breech of the T&Cs of your contract

Really?? 
Who cares?

As bad as giving someone your parking ticket with unexpired time on it to use? Come on!

twopenny

I love my neighbours but even after 4yrs I'm not sure I know them well enough as to whether they have secret vices.

None of us rely on it as we just phone or knock on a door if we need help.

If it was something like printing out flight tickets I'd do that for them.

During the pandemic we just sat outside out houses and talked - one stayed inside plugging away to get a food delivery and called 'anything anyone wants' and when delivered dropped it at the door in a seperate bag.

Mind I live rurally so we're used to rubbish phone signals and broadband going down because a diggers gone through the cables.

Mistral001

Andy_L said:

Eldi_Dos said:

Think I would rather share my toothbrush with neighbours dog than give anyone outside of family the password to router.

Giving The password to the router is different to letting them use your wi-fi 

How does that work?  Surely they will need a password before they can use to your wifi.

Vannaa

When I had 500mb fibre broadband I had a guest network with SSID of 'Open-Password = Open' that anyone could use. I limited the bandwidth but it saved having to give the wifi password out to visitors.

BikingBud

Mistral001 said:

Andy_L said:

Eldi_Dos said:

Think I would rather share my toothbrush with neighbours dog than give anyone outside of family the password to router.

Giving The password to the router is different to letting them use your wi-fi 

How does that work?  Surely they will need a password before they can use to your wifi.

You will have a password so that you can control the router, as mentioned before, this will allow you to control the wi-fi signals 2.4 and 5 GHz, rename the network, check usage logs including what device (MAC address) has been logged on and block those you may wish to, possibly set up a VPN for your connection so every device that then logs on is sat on the VPN and also change network passwords if you have given it to someone and you wish to inhibit their access.

littleteapot

Interesting question. As I work in a related industry, I wouldn't be at all worried about them 'taking the michael' as I could quite easily manage/control their utilisation, keep them on a separate 'guest' network and indeed monitor what they were doing if I could be bothered. I would make it clear there was a time limit (e.g. 2 weeks) and simply disconnect or limit throughput to make it barely usable after that time.

My biggest concern as others have pointed out would be having it used to access innapropriate content or criminal activity which would lead authorities back to me. I'd have no way of 'proving' that it was the neighbour and not me. After all, if I'm the one administering the access, how can I prove that I wasn't the one using it unless I have an enterprise-grade AAA system in place where each user sets their own access password etc?