Do you give out your wifi password?

Do you give guests your password?

  • Yes

    Votes: 29 52.7%

  • No

    Votes: 26 47.3%
  • Total voters
    55
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I hope there isn't a thread like this already(nothing in search)..

Just curious, how many of you guys give/don't give out your wifi password to your guests? What are the reasons?
 
I do not give out my passwords to "guests", per say, but with family I have, although I do not consider them "guests". I suppose it is your given definition of such.

I consider "guests" to be people outside of family (even if they don't live with me), as friends, visitors, contractors, etc.
 
txsizzler said:
I do not give out my passwords to "guests", per say, but with family I have, although I do not consider them "guests". I suppose it is your given definition of such.

I consider "guests" to be people outside of family (even if they don't live with me), as friends, visitors, contractors, etc.
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Oops, probably should of elaborated :D. I would give relatives passwords for sure or out of town friends staying over for a weekend etc. but not sure about regular guests.

Renji, what kind of limited rights do you give them?

I am thinking about changing up my policy whether or not I give guests wifi access.
 
hafnium911 said:
Oops, probably should of elaborated :D. I would give relatives passwords for sure or out of town friends staying over for a weekend etc. but not sure about regular guests.

Renji, what kind of limited rights do you give them?

I am thinking about changing up my policy whether or not I give guests wifi access.
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I turn parental controls on the guest wifi, all adult websites/gambling blocked. they also only get a certain amount of alotted time. if there friends coming over I grant them access to the real wifi, but I monitor what they do afterwards.
 
renji1337 said:
I turn parental controls on the guest wifi, all adult websites/gambling blocked. they also only get a certain amount of alotted time. if there friends coming over I grant them access to the real wifi, but I monitor what they do afterwards.
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"Friends" need to be monitored on your WiFi? Are they into some scandalous shit or what?

I don't bother with a guest network, I just give everyone the real password. What harm are they going to do from a cell phone even if they go to some janky ass websites?
 
I have a guest network, but a lot of the time I just give out the main network SSID.

I do not have that many "guests" and enough monitoring and security on my network that nefarious activity is not going to go un-noticed for long.
 
ocellaris said:
"Friends" need to be monitored on your WiFi? Are they into some scandalous shit or what?

I don't bother with a guest network, I just give everyone the real password. What harm are they going to do from a cell phone even if they go to some janky ass websites?
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Not monitored as in what website they go to really, moreso there data usage. I had one kid who came with another friend of mine before and spent a couple days at my house because he was in a rough patch, and he paid me like 50$ but when he left I noticed he used like 30gb data on his phone on my wifi via SFTP lol.

I have a 500gb cap that I constantly get close too which is why I watch data usage, although this month im not even near 200gb because of all the dc's
 
I too have guest network which is separate from my own Wi-Fi. My direct family, and people I know to be at least moderately tech/computer savvy, get on the proper Wi-Fi but everybody else get on the bandwidth-restricted Guest network. Solely because of the crap I have found on their devices in the past, I tell them and they don't listen. Congrats, you're on dial-up speed Wi-Fi....well not quite, I think it's 20Mb down and 1Mb up.
 
When I contracted to FEMA, I had a special VLAN id for their laptop and phone connection that was also subnetted differently as well. This is on top of my standard normal wifi and a guest wifi. The FEMA and guest wifi run off of the actual AP in my pfSense router so that I can monitor any weird shit using ntopng and my normal in-house SSID connects to my Unifi AP.
 
Guest network/vlan is wpa2 with full access to internet and no access to lan other than airplay to a couple of devices. Main network is 802.1x
 
I run an open access AP that is VPN'd to another country. Seems to work well and I never have to give out my WiFi password.

ProTip: Open AP with the SSID of attwifi = autoconnecting iPhones.
 
I used to but now I just have a separate SSID on a vlan that is restricted to internet only. I just leave it wide open. Also acts as plausible deniability if I get DMCAed. :D No idea how effective that really is in the court of law though.
 
I give mine out, our connect the device myself. I always use wifi at friends houses and none of my friends seems to mind.
 
I do give mine out. For those that don't, no worries, because those're the type of people that nobody would want to hang out with in the first place.
 
Wow you guys sound like jerks. If you invite someone into your house why wouldn't you trust them on your damn wifi. I understand if it's a business network or something, but damn. Afraid they are going to find your kiddie porn stash or something?
 
ocellaris said:
"Friends" need to be monitored on your WiFi? Are they into some scandalous shit or what?

I don't bother with a guest network, I just give everyone the real password. What harm are they going to do from a cell phone even if they go to some janky ass websites?
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Ya if they do something it gets traced back to you, what if they look at child porn for example
 
HeavensCloud said:
Wow you guys sound like jerks. If you invite someone into your house why wouldn't you trust them on your damn wifi. I understand if it's a business network or something, but damn. Afraid they are going to find your kiddie porn stash or something?
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Your could be providing a service to a criminal enterprise for all you know. Trust no one
 
Romale23 said:
Your could be providing a service to a criminal enterprise for all you know. Trust no one
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Like someone else said, if you are that type of person I highly doubt you have many friends coming to your house. Plus there's this thing called a MAC address as well as laws being placed that state the IP doesn't indicate the criminal due to all the WiFi theft and "borrowing."
 
I don't see the point for a guest wifi at my house. If I don't trust my guests on my wireless network, then I don't trust them in my home.

I don't have any super secret information I worry about them gaining access to. Even still, my guests would have no idea how to access it anyway.
 
Romale23 said:
Ya if they do something it gets traced back to you, what if they look at child porn for example
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You know that it would still be sourced from the same public IP, right? Why would it matter if they are on a seperate WLAN? :confused::confused:
 
I don't release it to just anyone that comes into my house. The "regulars" have it, that's about it.

Those that do ask that I don't trust- (I've had contractors ask before) I tell them the network is hidden- and give them a fake wifi access point name and password. They give up in five minutes.
 
Hmm interesting, yes and no are tied. Now that has me thinking whether or not to have a guest access separately for them. :D I used to think it would be mean to say no, but seems like a lot more people don't give out more than I thought.
 
I give mine out, but that's because I have few friends and know them well so if they shaft me in some way I got bigger problems than my wifi password.
 
Nope, don't hand out anything. Guest network is turned on any home when we have parties/gatherings, otherwise off. Any sites I support has a guest network that is on its own subnet.
 
Pretty much just family / close friends so not a issue giving them the real password. It's better that way really, so that they can access the content on my file server.
 
If I can't trust someone with a simple piece of information like that, why would I trust them in my domicile?
 
Yes we give the password to guests to use the Wifi.

However, the wifi and the modem/router is the same box provided by our ISP (Frontier) and all of my equipment is handled through another independent managed switch (Procurve 2810-24). The port that handles the uplink between the switch &router/modem/wifi is mac restricted (0 macs allowed to access). The only devices that can access my devices are the devices plugged into my switch, and on the same vlan. Any devices plugged into any other switch cannot access or see any other equipment on my switch. I've considered using my router to setup a "trusted" network to split the networks, but it seems to be working ok as-is.
 
I have a separate SSID for guests that is also password protected and I just wrote it on a whiteboard in my house so guests can see it.
 
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