To give free wifi or not to give free wifi (that is the question.)

[Jonathan951]

Hi All...

Im a new host and I don't really want my guests to use my wifi. Is this problem for guests booking a place, having no wifi....there is comcast  / xfinity hot spots around my neighborhood ( i know that doesn't help international guests and you have to have a comcast account). But I'm concerned that if guests use my wifi they will download or look at sites that I definitely wouldn't want associated with my name or address.... or does any body know of temporary wifi that guests could pay for, and I could reimburse them, (only if they stay a couple of nights that is, to be cost effective) and guests have to use their details to open the account so it's not associated with me.

Or shall I just make it simple and don't offer wifi.

Thank you.....

Jon

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

@Jonathan951 

there were another thread here on CC where hosts were fined because of illegal music/mouvies downloads made by guests from his IP address. Germany have specially strict law about it and penalties are high.

If I remember it correctly, his way out was that he wasn't in the country at the time and his house rules where he stated "Any illegal behaviour is forbidden and the guest is responsible for any fees" (or something along the lines) and he has a name and address of his guest.

After reading his post I added the same in my house rules.

Here are 2 posts about it (but there are more)

https://community.withairbnb.com/t5/Help/Illegal-internet-download-by-guest/m-p/534750#M126379

https://community.withairbnb.com/t5/Help/Illegal-filesharing-what-to-do-step-by-step/td-p/241797

[Dimitar27]

Almost everybody can break your WiFi password for less then 10 min. Regular household routers are not protected.