Thread: Part time BB?
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Old 06-14-2007, 02:55 PM
Eeyore
 
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Default Re: Part time BB?



Tony wrote:

> "xCx" wrote
> > Tony wrote:
> >> A neighbour is in the UK for about 3 months every year, and for the rest
> >> of the time they rent their house. Is there any sensible and legal way
> >> for them to get BB without paying for the whole year? There doesn't
> >> seem to be any way they could transfer the connection to a tenant

> (snip)
> > Get wirless yourself and whilst they're over let them use it and share the
> > cost? If you trust your neighbour shouldn't be a problem.

>
> Against my ISP t & c of course. But apart from that I trust them to be nice
> people but unfortunately I don't trust them not to let their PC become
> infected as they are not computer savvy. I don't want to be in the
> situation of having to oversee their AV firewall and email settings and I
> don't think they would like it either. In fact I would share my BB about as
> willingly as my toothbrush.


If they're just providing an IP connection, you don't need to get involved in
their IT one jot.

What THEY do with their computer won't affect you one tiny little bit.

Don't even begin to think of using an ISP for their email address for example,
just use their outgoing smtp server.

Graham

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