internet in rental house

Hi

We are having wifi internet connected in our house which we sometimes rent out. I presume we allow people to use this as part of the rental cost or do you charge extra?

How do you protect others from accessing the wifi from outside of the house and should we have a password that we keep changing. Also how do you stop people accessing illegal sites in Spain. We do not want to be accussed of breaking the law.

Thanks

Hi Nickid - I arranged this for a client of mine and the deal was that the tenant could use the internet.  In fact they paid the monthly fee while they were in the house but this was a long let.  For a short / holiday let I would just include this in the price of the let.  When they arrived I set it up for them using the password and you could change this each time, I suppose, if you were concerned that they might have given out the password to a neighbour. 

If you use Telefonica then there is automatic security so no-one can access your service.  You do get parental controls on most systems these days, but I don't know if that would protect you from all the sites you may be concerned about.  I would guess that if you could prove you were not living there and there was a tenant in the property, then you would not be at risk of any consequences of illegal use.

Hope that helps.  There are many on the forum who know a lot more about wifi than I do, so hopefully you will get other replies too.

 We had Telefonica in our apartment. I changed the default WEP key to a WPA2 (more secure), set a new SSID (identifies the network when connecting) to something resembling our apartment name and a password. The SSID is given to the guest along with the password so they can connect. TF also have a "Nanny" filter called Cangaru which filters dodgy sites, but also filters out bona fide sites too if it thinks the name is dodgy. Don't install the router cd as all the instructions are nSpanish, much better to open your web browser and go directly to the router for these things. PM me if you want details.

Have just moved over to Vodafone as after the initial 12 months, TF were too expensive.

Mark

just to say if your only planning on picking up e-mail you might prefer mobile broadband, but if your DLing then fixed line makes sense

As for wep vs wap2 - I can break WEP on a laptop in a few minutes breaking WAP2 takes a couple of days depending on what your using - the newest chip designs plus the latest  graphic chips have made brute force cracking much more plausible. Just to say i have worked in tech security and I am what is known as a white hat. I don't crack systems, that why i am telling how easy it i for them to be Cracked (not hacked) although in reality i am a script kiddie as other better coders/hakers do the heavy lifting for me