I shared my Wi-Fi password with a neighbour in need and now our internet is slow – don’t make the same mistake

A WOMAN has cut off her neighbour after they spent months ‘mooching’ off her Wi-Fi without a thank you.

The 24-year-old ‘do gooder’ lent her neighbour her home’s Wi-Fi password after a single mother of two had recently moved in next door.

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The single mother was mooching off the Wi-Fi password for four months[/caption]

Detailing her experience on Reddit, the woman wrote: “I was raised by a single mum and so obviously wanted to make sure she was okay, I said if she needed a hand settling in just to let us know.

“A couple weeks pass, and we get a knock on the door and a child (her child) is standing there with a mobile asking for the password,” she continued.

“I give it to him as I’m not really going to say no to a child.”

The young woman, who has refers to the mother as ‘Anna’ for anonymity purposes, shares a house with two others in their 20s.

They all work as freelance creatives and “don’t earn loads”, she said.

The neighbour claimed she was having trouble getting an engineer from her Wi-Fi provider over to the house to set up a new router.

But after about a month of Wi-Fi sharing, the Reddit user and her housemates were suffering with slow internet, buffering videos and lagging Zoom calls.

“I work from home sometimes so need fast Wi-Fi,” she explained.

“I texted Anna asking if she has got an engineer in (I know she hasn’t as I can see she is connected, but as a gentle nudge).

“There are now seven additional devices on our Wi-Fi at this point.”

Nearly three months later, the neighbour and all her devices are still draining the Wi-Fi.

The neighbour has barely spoken to them, let alone mentioned when an engineer might be round to set up her own Wi-Fi.

“We could upgrade it to be faster, but it’s about 20$ more a month,” the Redditor continued.

“My roommate says just to cut her off and not say anything, but I feel bad doing that to a single mum.

“She also has not attempted any kind of contact/friendship with us besides asking for the Wi-Fi, or asked to extend using it/offer to chip in for it.

“We have been friendly, given her a gift for Xmas and offered to babysit should she need.”

Eventually, enough was enough, according to the Reddit post.

The young woman cut off the single mother and her kids, aged around eight and 10.

Commenters thought she wasn’t in the wrong for what she did, saying it was very likely the mother was mooching off her and avoiding her on purpose.

“We changed the Wi-Fi name and login – new password is moochingmama1234 (cos I’m a petty queen),” she said.

“No word as of yet… I think she may have got the message, like what is there to say, really?”

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