Surely if is against the law for neighbours to se your internet, all a bit silly, what if they download porn or even worse child porn?
As to you paying £50 a month, good on you AJ, you are still at college and your part time job could be for your treats and towards clothes.
I suppose really it is down to you and your mum to have a chat and come to some mutual agreement, good luck.

I completely see your point Amy. I too would be really annoyed if my mum wanted to make me pay for Internet but was handing out the wifi passwords to the neighbours. You already pay your way as you stated. I would talk to her about it maybe tell her your not willing to pay your share of the internet bill if the neighbours have access?

You pay £50 a month. At your age I paid quadruple that.

You wouldn't survive on your own, on £50 a month.

She's only 17, not 27 :laugh:

I would be willing to pay more to live here, that's not the issue it's paying for something she gives to others for absolutely free but I figure your here just to bag on me anyway rather than be constructive.

I just think it's kinda bratty to be whinging about bills when you have it pretty good

She's 17 and works part time at a retailing job. I don't get how Amy is being bratty in any way, shape or form.

I wouldn't dream of questioning my parents on bill matters.

Would never slag my mam off for anything especially to people on this forum. She knows best!

i'm sure you would say something if your neighbour or someone was using your internet for free while you have to pay for it..

Maybe to my mam yes but I wouldn't invite a load of strangers online to join in with me to slag her off.

no not you:laugh: it was directed at glenn

I could probably do with being put in private chat :laugh:

Not if I'm only paying £50 a month I wouldn't. Call me old fashioned but I have some respect for my parents. They afterall put a roof over my head, fed and clothed me. I wouldn't moan about having to pay for internet regardless of who was using it.

If you were paying £200 to your mum 10 years ago while in full time education and getting paid under minimum wage for 17 hours a week work then wow

I wasn't in full time education 10yrs ago. I left school at 16 and walked straight into a job.

Also as Cal says, I wouldn't come online and let a bunch of strangers talk crap about my parents. Its so disrespectful

I am trying to get the skills I need to do a nursing course, should I give that up so I can go full time in retail?

Amy can you try explaining to your mum that she should change the Internet password to stop your neighbour using it ASAP it's a terrible idea to allow that and the security risks are off putting enough before even thinking about what they will view online/download.

As for the money thing I think with you still being in college, only working part time hours and your mum still receiving ctc for you then asking you to pay out more is a bit too much, maybe you could talk to her more about it and see how it goes.

Not really sagging her off but not shocked at the usual people reaching :laugh:

might be a bit personal,

but does your father pay maintanance for you to your mother?

I don't think anyone moreso me, have implied you do that. I was merely correcting your assumption that I was still at school at 16.

I will speak to her about it, I honestly don't mind paying more it's what she's asking me to pay for that's bothering me

But thank you for the thoughtful reply Josy I'll 100% talk to her about it

£50 is reasonable for a 17 year old college student, i'm sure Amy respects her parents, she's just annoyed that she has to pay and the person who doesn't live there gets to use it for free. I think anyone else would be annoyed by that as well

Oh come on she isn't slagging her mum off at all she's just feeling a bit frustrated and wanted to talk to others about it, like many others on here do.