So, I have been helping my neighbor with wi-fi, it has taken a terrible turn.

What worries me is why anyone would answer his door in the middle of the night.

Me? I'd just yell through the closed door:

"Hang on, I know it's got to be an emergency, so I've already called the sheriff's department and they're on their way!"

OP, you have been used as a sucker, and will continue to be used as a sucker unless or until you learn to grow a spine.

All kinds of posters here have given you all kinds of circumventions to slyly cut the parasite off of your wifi.

BUT the parasite will continue to invent ways to leach off of you unless and until you decide to make it clear that you are no longer a viable host organism.

NOW it is time to have the blunt How the Cow Eats the Cabbage Talk

Either call up or meet up with the neighbor. One way or another, record the conversation.

Here goes:

I need to talk with you about what was going on with the wifi. I was recently advised that what was going on with you accessing my wifi as a guest might not even have been technically legal. When I have even a doubt about whether it was technically legal or not, I am going to immediately square my ass away to make sure I am keeping my part of something legal.

You can get your own wifi through XYZ company just like I do. Look them up at XYZ dot com or call them at 555-XYZ-XYZZ.

Now about that knock on the door at 1230 in the middle of the night, regarding wifi access.

I am asleep and my household is well secured at that hour of the night. I consider any knock on the door or other disturbance at that hour to be an emergency. I will call the sheriff's department immediately. That is for your safety as well as mine. In case of emergency, we will have already have help on the way all the faster.

Do not knock on my door at that hour unless it is a life and death emergency. In fact, it's probably best for you to call ahead at any time before you knock on the door. I tend to take household security rather seriously.

We both live out here rather isolated. In case of fire, tornado, or other serious threat you can absolutely count on me for immediate, temporary emergency-basis assistance. But do NOT ask me for any other sort of assistance. You wore out your welcome by putting me at possible risk with that wifi business.

Now you state your piece, or or can call it a day. I've had my say.

Well, the title pretty much says it all. I have satellite internet.

I paid quite a pretty penny to get this installed. I live in a remote area. There are no other options available.

Unless you want a dial-up connection that is reaching 24k max.

My wife made good friends with the neighbor, who saw our wireless router on her device.

So she asked my wife if it would be possible to connect to the router. At first, I had no trouble with this. (2 years ago).

Now I pay heavily for this damned thing ($80/mo) for just internet.

I thought this might be a temporary situation. No.. This neighbor is still leaching my internet!

I have changed the router password. Guess what? The neighbor came down at 12:30am tonight.

She asks "when I try to log on, it says authentication error?"


Am I wrong for this? I really hate being an ass, but damn! I think they should have their own internet service in 2 years!



Or???

if you want you can troll her, there are ways to redirect peoples browser to like porn on same router.

When they ask for more then your willing to help, it is no longer a nice thing. It becomes a dependance issue.

Now you are their tech support!

Just hope they don't get into trouble file sharing and get your connection fined/shut off.

Ask them to split the bill or say bye bye to I-Net.

That's way too much to be leeching internet.
They should have taken the hint at "authentication error."
and to knock on your door that late? are you kidding me?

When they ask for more then your willing to help, it is no longer a nice thing. It becomes a dependance issue.

Now you are their tech support!

Just hope they don't get into trouble file sharing and get your connection fined/shut off.

Ask them to split the bill or say bye bye to I-Net.

This is a stupid thread with lots of stupid advice! OP is a pussy for not having the guts to tell his neighbour the truth.

Why go around making excuses for doing the right thing?

i thought you killed him or something

Yes, I have thought about this. I might do it.

You have no idea what the situation is. In the beginning, this neighbor was a single mother struggling to get by.

I have a thing called compassion.

Now she has a man in her life, just trying to be tactful here.

It's not easy to be mean when you care about others, okay?

I'm not a pushover, I just have had enough now...

Is it costing you extra?

I mean, what's the difference?

Maybe they'll do you a favor in return one day.

I wish! I have the most top speed availability out here in the country.

I spend about $120/mo on internet alone.

Crazy....

It's not mean to tell the truth!

It's mean to make up a story about your ISP and multiple mac's!

GROW UP!

If those idiots look at kiddy porn You will be the one to go to jail bud. If the neighbors download movies and songs You will be the one hit with a lawsuit and loose Your house. I would simply tell them someone downloaded copyright material and You lost Your internet service due to it. I have been warned several times about downloading content and yes they will shut you off.

it was $80, few post earlier? are you sure what are you talking about or just making everyone here looks stupid?

God bless! read the fucking thread! The increased bandwith is running my bill up to $120-130/mo.

I have to pay extra for exceeded bandwidth, it's satellite internet.

:Desi:

OP, you could put traffic limiters on the router say after the person uses 8-10 gb that day (if you even allow that much) then the router locks out the person (your neighbour) until the alotted time set on the router (24 hours)

Well, this is where I am going now. It's really pissing me off. The neighbor now has a boyfriend, and man.... the bandwidth is showing it!!

I think it's ultimatum time now...

subtleties won't work on people like that. then she'd be knocking on his door every 10 minutes asking why she can't access the internet

If those idiots look at kiddy porn You will be the one to go to jail bud. If the neighbors download movies and songs You will be the one hit with a lawsuit and loose Your house. I would simply tell them someone downloaded copyright material and You lost Your internet service due to it. I have been warned several times about downloading content and yes they will shut you off.

This sounds good. Your ISP will contact you if say Disney notices you downloaded something illegal of theirs. Disney watches more than others, they want their money.

I wish! I have the most top speed availability out here in the country.

I spend about $120/mo on internet alone.

Crazy....

OP, you could put traffic limiters on the router say after the person uses 8-10 gb that day (if you even allow that much) then the router locks out the person (your neighbour) until the alotted time set on the router (24 hours)

subtleties won't work on people like that. then she'd be knocking on his door every 10 minutes asking why she can't access the internet

If your neighbor or her boyfriend download illegally (torrent) or any other activity you are responsible for it and can get in trouble.

Cut them off. Explaining why might help.

tell her why, and if she wont foot the cost, then said traffic limiter remains until such a thing happens. Simple really. Its her own fault for using her daily bandwidth limit. If she wants to use the net all day (without paying it) then she should be conservative and watch 480p movies on netflix (700megabytes per video hour watched) compared to a 1080p video at 2-3 gbs per hour

You have no idea what the situation is. In the beginning, this neighbor was a single mother struggling to get by.

I have a thing called compassion.

Now she has a man in her life, just trying to be tactful here.

It's not easy to be mean when you care about others, okay?

I'm not a pushover, I just have had enough now...

Well, the title pretty much says it all. I have satellite internet.

I paid quite a pretty penny to get this installed. I live in a remote area. There are no other options available.

Unless you want a dial-up connection that is reaching 24k max.

My wife made good friends with the neighbor, who saw our wireless router on her device.

So she asked my wife if it would be possible to connect to the router. At first, I had no trouble with this. (2 years ago).

Now I pay heavily for this damned thing ($80/mo) for just internet.

I thought this might be a temporary situation. No.. This neighbor is still leaching my internet!

I have changed the router password. Guess what? The neighbor came down at 12:30am tonight.

She asks "when I try to log on, it says authentication error?"


Am I wrong for this? I really hate being an ass, but damn! I think they should have their own internet service in 2 years!



Or???

Yeah you know I'm just looking at my bill and it's $55 for internet services and $82 a month for wireless.

That is an issue about 'illegal downloads' - you don't know what they're doing. I had friends visiting from overseas and they loaded a bunch of HBO, etc. stuff to take back and watch. And I got a very threatening letter saying HBO and government had been notified about my illegal activity and it listed everything they had illegally downloaded. And the internet company was considering cancelling my account.

I was so mad! Unless they are really good friends that you trust, I wouldn't share it.

And good morning Kinect!

Not trolling, normally it's $80/mo, with this increased bandwidth, it's $120-130/mo.