Neighbors want to share wifi

[ecla12]

Hi,

I don't know very much about technology so bear with me.. My neighbors have asked me if they could share my WiFi, and I want to do it, but I'm concerned about privacy -- what could they have access to? I want to know the likelihood of each level of access as well, and if there's a reasonably good chance my privacy would be compromised, are there ways to protect it?

Thanks.

p.s. by reasonably good chance, I mean they wouldn't have to seek it out via hacking or anything like that

 

[Sheepykins]

as long as you arnt sharing any drives or resources on the network with other computers around your home then none.
you can put a seperate password on the router so they cant change settings, access logs or normal logs. the problem is that if its your internet then you are responsible for whatever they get up to. If they download a illegal media, i dunno maybe they have a fetish for midget child porn or something then you get it in the neck.

 

[ecla12]

Thank you for your response. How can I put a separate password on the router?

 

[Nitestick]

Can't really say, there's a million and one different configuration systems for routers by now. I'd advise against sharing internet with a neighbour, as mentioned above this leaves you in a vulnerable position legally. You may be comfortable with the idea now but they could download illegal content to spite you if you fall out with them.

 

[Lexluethar]

Bad idea - not only are you probably breaking the end user agreement with your internet service provider (so they could legally sue you if they ever found out you were doing this) you are leaving yourself open for hacking and other attacks. Think, if a person on your network was hacking a government site, looking at, downloading and sharing child porn and movies all of that activity goes back to one and only one IP address - the address on your modem. Just your modem, no one elses.

Also if they know what they are doing they can definitely monitor and view what packets are being sent over the network.

A really really bad idea IMO.

 

[ecla12]

I appreciate the responses I'm not the least bit concerned about that, only my privacy; would setting up a guest network help? If so how can I do that?