wireless sharing with neighbour

[sandancer]

My neighbour next door does not have a telephone line and has asked me if he could use my wireless internet connection through in his house. He assures me that neither he or I, can monitor or intercept what each of us is doing and he seems nice. Is there any risk in this? he says that it is just for light surfing and emails and not major downloading that will use up my allowance per month. For him to use it I will have to give him a 26 set of numbers for him to access... is it true what he says that he can`t access my computer and me his? He has offered to pay a bit towards my connection.
Greatful for help again on this.

Senga

just tell him to get a dongle about ?10 a month does the job as good as broadband same as ive done .cancelled my subscription now just have dongle go anywhere with it any time magic plug and go thats it .dont feel sorry to say no its his problem not yoursgood luck senga

[starsky]

If he has access to your wireless network he can intercept your stuff, for doing that sniffing he must bee pretty good with computer and know what he's doing

[nraimo]

I'd persoanly not allow him, if he has a decent level of brains he'd only need to packet sniff your connection and could get EVERYTHING you see on his screen. THe Only way to fully protect your self is setting up a network to auth all connections that way you can restrict his access from other computers on the network

[Furax]

The method i would use is to get another router and split the networks in a DMZ. Will keep your connection separate from his.

FON

do a router that has a private network and a public network, if you were to buy one then just give him the details for the public one.

I think most of their routers support DDWRT firmware too, ive got one of the orginal la foneras running DD-WRT acting as a wireless bridge. Cool bit of kit for the money!

[twittowoo]

i share my wifi with a house 100/120mter down the road hade to use 2x netgear access point and one cheep 9dbm antt from fleebay and a netgear antt at my end been working fine for 2year now only used the home units total cost was ?220 it a lot but has access to my share hd drive to. Any how as a naighour the best way is a cable thro the wall in a pvc pipe and one access point only if thay want wifi in all the house