Offer your wifi when their internet goes down
For anyone working from home, an outage is a lost day of pay. A password shared over the fence gets it back.
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Broadband faults are not evenly costly. For one household it is an evening without television; for the self-employed person next door it is a canceled client call and no income that day. Since outages are usually street-level and providers differ, there is a decent chance yours is fine while theirs is not — which makes your router briefly one of the more valuable things on the street.
How
When you notice an engineer's van or hear someone complaining, offer: “Ours is on a different provider and it's up — want the password while yours is out?” Set up a guest network if your router does that. It costs nothing and it lets someone finish their working day.
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