My landlord has "free" wireless internet connections for us tenants, right?

Question

Sometimes it goes out, I mean, I can't access the internet, but the icon at the bottom of the screen indicates that the wireless antenna or whatever you call it is working good.
Can the landlord disconnect me from the internet while keeping his own connection?
Before the interruptions started, he had complained about slowness of his connection for weeks.
Anyways, I'm moving out. I went 11 days without the internet and had to take extreme measures: Checking out library books. lol
Please explain how the landlord can cut off my internet even though my computer indicates that I am connected to the wireless network.

Answer 1

Hey,



With out knowing how the Wifi network is setup i cant really give you a specific answer...but i can give you some technical insight. Here are some examples of how the landlord could be limiting/stopping your internet connection:



1.) Disconnecting the phone line from the Wifi router - This will also effect your landlord as well as yourselves.



2.) If your landlord is technical he could stop any traffic from accessing the outside apart from himself - This would involve him to place his machine on a static ip and also configuring the router to only accept his ip/mac to the outside. Where as your self will connect to the router but will not be able to get any further.



Above is a technical and non-answer of how he could be stopping you from gaining your internet rights. I personally reackon it could be you ISP (Internet Service Provder) hense the router still being on and you still being able to connect to it. You can rule out ISP by doing the following below:



Press "Start"



Click on "Run"



Type in "cmd"



Then press enter



then type inside the black box (Command Prompt) "ping www.google.com"



See if you get a reply.....it should say the following:



Pinging www-tmmdi.l.google.com (**.**.**.**) 56(84) bytes of data.



Reply from **.**.**.**: bytes = 32 time=23ms TTL=47



(or somthing like that)



If you get the following reply or similiar below then you have an outside connection but there maybe some foul play on your router. If you dont get a reply but you get a DNS reponse which is the following:



Pinging www-tmmdi.l.google.com (**.**.**.**) 56(84) bytes of data.



Request timed out.

Request timed out.



Then there still maybe foul play happening on the Wifi network :-)



But if you get the following exmaple shown below:



Pinging www.google.com with 32 bytes of data:



Request timed out.

Request timed out.



I would probably say its to do with the ISP and your landlord is not at fault.



I hope i havnt techified you but if you need anything else or a better explanation then let me know :-)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

i don't know the technical details but i know that on our one at home you can access the router through the main computer and decide the priority of computers and poss even disconnect them from the internet itself while keeping the local connection. hope this helps.

Answer 4

Yes he can, he can access the server/router settings and choose which clients get internet an who doesn't, it comes up as a list of how many clients are using the connection and who they are, it doesn't come up with names, just IP addresses and MAC addresses, so theres a chance your land lord just thinks your someone stealing the internet.

Answer 5

Yes he can in many ways. He can block your by your MAC address. He can turn off the wireless and use only wired connection

Answer 6

if the "free" internet is part of the lease, you can get your deposit back because he did not meet his legal contract agreement. If the "free" internet was "unofficial", you are out of luck... He may be providing it as a customer "service", but as soon as anyone abuses it, he has the right to clamp down on it, do what he wishes....

Answer 7

he is probably turning your QoS (Quality of Service to 1%)

while his computer is connected,

i do this to my brother,

if you want to turn it off u need access to the router

and that usually needs a password