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Flatmate issue

  • 02-10-2015 2:52pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    I've been in rented accomodation the last 4 years. About 6 months ago I arrived back unexpectedly to find that the other tenant had my UPC box plugged in, up& running, using the Wifi. I pay €45 per month for this UPC. So I changed the password (the original one was under the box). Since then, the other tenant has asked for my new password on about 4 different occasions. The last time, I suggested that if they want to use the internet, that it'd be about €20 a month, ie: to split the bill 50/50. They said they "only" wanted it to check their email. There is very poor phone reception in the area, so if this is the case, it means they have been using my Wifi all along.
    What do I do? This person will keep badgering, if it was me I'd be mortified at having been caught out. I don't want to fall out with them either.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    I would keep asking for the €20. The cheek of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    OP here. Yes they are a bit brazen! Thing is, will claim "only using it this once"- making it out like I'm a complete tightwad. In the general scheme of things, I wouldn't have an argument with someone over €20, but it's just their general attitude towards it& the fact I've been a mug the last few years that gets me riled. Plus I'm moving out next month. Argh! Dreading the weekend already. Even if they do pay me €20, I won't get any satisfaction out of it. I really just want to say "NO". Can I?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Have you cancelled the UPC if you're moving out? If you have, just let them use it for the sake of peace and quiet, I'd say. If you haven't cancelled it, tell them that you'd be more than happy to transfer it to their name and they can take over paying the full amount when you're gone. But if they refuse that, no way would I give them the password. They either want the internet, which isn't free, or they don't, which means they don't need your password.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    If their e-mails are that important they'll go to McDonalds and get WiFi. Tell them to fup off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    Kjhllkjk wrote: »
    OP here. Yes they are a bit brazen! Thing is, will claim "only using it this once"- making it out like I'm a complete tightwad. In the general scheme of things, I wouldn't have an argument with someone over €20, but it's just their general attitude towards it& the fact I've been a mug the last few years that gets me riled. Plus I'm moving out next month. Argh! Dreading the weekend already. Even if they do pay me €20, I won't get any satisfaction out of it. I really just want to say "NO". Can I?

    Of course you can say no. They've a cheek! Tell them no, that it's on the blink and suggest they set up a contract themselves or go to somewhere with free Wifi if they're unwilling to pay.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    Just say, look I pay 45 a month for Internet if you want to use it you can go half's with me on it since we live together otherwise you can go use the free wifi somewhere else. That's fair enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 57 ✭✭alex.middleton


    I would say suggest your own price which factors in their lower usage limit or if you want to go as far as to monitor their usage this is possible as well with basic software


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭njs030


    Is it unlimited internet?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    I'd just let them use it if it was me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


    I'd just let them use it if it was me!

    Under normal circumstances perhaps but the cheeky fecker had been sneakily using it while the OP was out and is now brazen enough to harass the OP for a password. How very dare they! No. Just no.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    Kjhllkjk wrote: »
    ...but it's just their general attitude towards it & the fact I've been a mug the last few years that gets me riled.

    Right, so you've been a mug. Maybe have had an issue with boundaries and being a people pleaser? I assume that there's more to this than someone using your broadband for nothing. That being the case, this is a great opportunity for you to show some steel ;)

    As things stand you feel like you're on the back foot when it comes to dealing with this other tenant. So what if they think you're a tightwad! If the other tenant approaches you again, give them a firm No. Don't get involved in discussions about this or you'll tie yourself in knots and give in. Let them get their own UPC when you move out or move the connection in the house over to their own name. You're not responsible for them not having the broadband they appear to need.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    You're the one paying the bill so you have a right to say NO.


    If they want to fork out €20 a month, no problem but being sneaky about it and stealing from you is a no go area.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭PhiloCypher


    OP there is no way your flatmate has only/will only use your UPC for checking Email unless he is 60+ and still uses print media for all his porn/news/etc needs. If you give in it will eat away at you. Stand your ground offer a 50/50 split or as has been suggested offer to sign it over to him when you go. Don't enable a freeloader.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭LegacyUser


    I don't think you can transfer a UPC account to someone else - it's worth you checking this out, as you don't want the freeloader saying that he'll take on your UPC account, not paying the bills, and then you being chased for payment!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 445 ✭✭teggers5


    Next time he asks for password just tell him "€20 and you can have it"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 457 ✭✭Matteroffact


    If you are leaving next month why bother with the hassle of all of this. It is more trouble than it is worth for the sake of a month.
    Just learn from it and make sure the next time in a similar situation you set the ground rules from the start.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭CaraMay


    Give them the password and 30 minutes to check their mails. Then turn it off and change the password. Problem solved


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I personally find it weird that you're in rented accommodation with someone else, but only one of you pays and uses the internet. Never have lived in anything like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭pointelle


    Wow cheeky, generally bills that both use would be 50/50 Do they maybe supply a big something of theirs? I had a flatmate ask me for half (so he said) of his rental cost of a home entertainment product that he was keeping/buying even though the TV he used it with was mine and his annoying gf had been living with us for a long time free, I paid up wanting to keep the peace and friendship intact, don't bother, don't bother Dont Bother!! lock your stuff up and BTW! UPC look for the equipment to be returned if you're cancelling your account AND a months notice or payment in lieu, don't know about change of customer at same address. Do you lose or misplace clothes/ belongings???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭davej


    Go into the firewall settings of your router and create a rule for your flatmate's device to allow him access to *just* gmail.com

    davej


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