12vStig
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we live in a student house and split our monthly internet bill between us, however one lad hasn't paid his share for over 3 months now and funnily enough he is the one 'raping' the internet with constant downloads... we have decided enough is enough, is there anyway that we can block him from using the internet temporarily until he pays his way?
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Steve
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do you all share a pc or is it his own?
if he has his own just block his mac address on the router
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chrisritch
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surely adding a WPA Key and just not telling him it would suffice?
Failing that nick his laptop charger until he pays up
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Root
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what lower arms said
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Steve
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Alternatively, get this guy involved
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12vStig
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lol cheers guys, we dont really want to be changing the password and we certainly dont want to be getting 'the guys' involved... is blocking his mac address on the router temporary?
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Steve
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it will last as long as you take to remove it again
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Fro
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Students get on my tits. dont think i could do it without blowing a fuse every other day tbh.
some of the things my girlfs housemates do is ridiculous 
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Rob E
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We had one lad who used to download 24/7 making the internet so slow it became unusable for the other 6 of us. Depending on what router you have, you can set it up so it will only allow certain mac addresses to connect to it. We authorised everyone but his mac address and he thought his laptop had packed in when he found out everyone elses internet work fine 
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12vStig
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Thats the sort of effect we're after lol
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chris_uk
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you should be able to change access rights on the router, its a piece of piss to do.
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Aaron
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Kill him maybe?
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ed
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On a Netgear router you'd setup an access list of your own and everyone elses computers, but leave out the offender. You then just need to turn on and off the access list or add and remove approved users.
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Marc
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Tried kicking him in the dick and telling him to pay his debts?
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12vStig
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think we've got it sorted now, blocking his ps3 too. Cheers y'all
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Marc
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Did you follow my advice?
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AuroraSport
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Make sure you get your 3 months owed too.
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12vStig
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yes but to little avail, sadly 
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Marc
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Boo
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John
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Can you not just tell him he'll have to pay for the internet?
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12vStig
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it's one of those things, "yeah I'll give it you tomorrow mate" and so on... fingers crossed this will be the kick up the backside he needs, otherwise he's going to be leading a very boring lifestyle lol
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chris_uk
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let us know how it goes lol
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Dom
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Make sure your filtering access based on MAC address rather than computer names or IP addresses as the last two can be easily spoofed (MAC addresses can be too, but it's rather more difficult).
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Sam
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Sod all this MAC filtering bollocks, just go in his room and smash the fuck out of his computer/PS3 etc.
Fucking student tosser 
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Root
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Sod all this MAC filtering bollocks, just go in his room and smash the fuck out of his computer/PS3 etc.
Fucking student tosser
lol don't get steve started on students
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