Great to hear from you! Thanks for your good wishes and I am pleased that Worcester is sunny – given the weather you have had over the last few months!

Let me have the link to your blog sometime.

I am guilty as charged for reading your blog daily at work durring the Lunch hour reading about your life in Milan with V and Rufus. To explain to your other readers, that I use to work in an of with with you for a number of years and enjoyed your words of wisdom about life, Hay and Italy. Now that your in Italy and I am in sunny Worcester! I enjoy hearing about you and V and your eventful life in Milan and the Italian way of living.

All the best to you and V.

Anyway, after I wrote the piece, I looked at MAC Filtering and now only allow the MAC addresses for the PCs in the house.

Although the thought of giving them viruses sounds tempting, having spent the last month removing the buggers from V’s computer, perhaps not.

I do like the idea of getting them to pay. Might look at that.

Actually, it being August and not so many people here, in Milan, right now, I haven’t really noticed any speed difference. Shame really, if you see what I mean.

Anyway, thanks for the comments and I may well look at the charging software. Why not?

Cheers Alex

Blocking MAC addresses is easier than you’d think. Just find out your own PC’s MAC address (which will be in your list above) and then go to your config and only allow that MAC address.

Or if you learn some wifi hacking skillz you could browse their PCs, set up their internet connection to go to a local webpage you created or install a virus etc.

Alternatively, there are website that allow you to install software that will redirect connections to a page where they can pay a small fee to share your bandwidth.

I bet you’ve experienced a jump in speed now you’ve kicked them off?