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door locks and stealing broadband (kinda)
Conroy Bumpas
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basicly im moving to a new flat above the shop i work in.
i am probubly going to need to change the front door lock as i dont exactly have all the keys acconted for from the people that lived there before me. any know how easy/ or how much it would cost to change the lock. in nott 100% sure of the brand of lock. but its basicly a standaerd yale lock or very simaler.
the internet connection
in the shop there is an 8 meg connection (bt) and its all set up with cat5 running over the top of the celing tiles. an there is a hole in the roof that pipes go threw up into the flat thats soon to be mine. so its not going to much of a problem to stick and extra wire up ther to supply me. is this legal? would they know? (the connection is an 8 meg bt busines package) its a famly business so it will be fine with my boss. its just the provider.
basicly im moving to a new flat above the shop i work in.
i am probubly going to need to change the front door lock as i dont exactly have all the keys acconted for from the people that lived there before me. any know how easy/ or how much it would cost to change the lock. in nott 100% sure of the brand of lock. but its basicly a standaerd yale lock or very simaler.
the internet connection
in the shop there is an 8 meg connection (bt) and its all set up with cat5 running over the top of the celing tiles. an there is a hole in the roof that pipes go threw up into the flat thats soon to be mine. so its not going to much of a problem to stick and extra wire up ther to supply me. is this legal? would they know? (the connection is an 8 meg bt busines package) its a famly business so it will be fine with my boss. its just the provider.
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If it's okay with the owner of the connection then just running another cable from the router into your room shouldn't be a worry at all. Regarding locks, I'd check with the landlord. If it is just a standard Yale lock it should be a very easy swap after buying a new one.
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if i do do it and the provider finds out. are the likly to take legal or harsh actions first or more liklly to just contact and say "oi stop it" and then take actions if i carry on.
the connection will basicly be used for my ps3 and 360 and the mrs's lappy. so no dodgy down loading
If they have a stipulation for "no domestic use" then piping it into your flat above could potentially break the contract.
However, since you reside in the same physical building, there really isn't a reason why they would care... your connection is just another cable in the contract owners building. The only way that may be a "gotcha" is if that is being seen as basically reselling the service he is getting (regardless of him charging you).
I really doubt there would be much trouble with it so long as the business owner is fine with it, the ISP won't know any different unless you start doing things that they monitor (P2P traffic, massive downloads, etc). They really won't care about porn (unless you live somewhere that does monitor this of course). Running certain types of servers may be disallowed (even on a business connection) depending upon the contract terms.
As for the lock, it's usually cheap to get done, but will depend upon the number of doors, the rate of the locksmith doing the job, and the cost of the lock(s) you are replacing it with. Assuming one door and a fairly average lock you could easily pay less than $100 (in the USA) so long as the locksmith isn't driving a long distance from where you are. You could also do it yourself and pay far less.
Also, if you have a landlord for the property, they may be the one's doing the change, so ask about that (since that is no different than having an issue with heating/water/etc.
Your landlord might be willing to change the locks for you, and in any case needs to be notified before you do anything like that.
Replacing a lock shouldn't be too hard....buy the lock, install with screw driver.
EDIT: having said that, I really doubt they're likely to find out, and if you're an employee anyway that probably changes things, so I have no idea if the same rules would apply.
In this case though, being that it is one individual who also belongs to the business, you could make a pretty solid argument for private use.
Your landlord will want to change the locks him or herself or get a locksmith. Changing them without asking is most certainly verboten.
It's much like a home business, typically the phone line will be a business one and you can make personal calls on it.
Regardless it would not be hard to ring up and ask your provider.
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If you want to get techincal of course they can. It's just a matter of do they have a reason to look and inspect where the packets are going to/from and what they contain or not. Also, who is to say that ps3/360/wii isn't in an employee lounge or the bosses office. Personal traffic =/= residential use, so they would have to really focus in on the traffic from the shop to model it and see what it's doing. As I mentioned before, the only thing to really be wary of is things they contractually don't want done on their connections (running disallowed servers, using more than the allotted bandwidth, etc).