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Control over my internet connection
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Most router’s allow you to setup a guest network which creates a separate SSID and password you pick. This is the way.
Then you have to give them your wifi password. Btw, the router password is different than the wifi password.
No. But almost all ISP routers have a guest network hidden in the advanced menu.
You can have several wireless networks on the same connection. Get him to buy his own wireless router, connect it to your ISP's router via wire, and he can have is own wireless network on your connection. You can have your own network, with your password, and his can be on its own, and if you ever need to, all you have to disconnect the network cable to his router and he is disconnected.
Let's be honest OP, you sound like you don't have a lot of experience so I wouldn't even bother with what @JT2002TJ is suggesting. If you trust someone enough to share the internet then just give them the wifi password. You would have control of how they 'use the internet' in the actual router settings but, as I stated, you sound very inexperienced so you don't have many choices.
New wireless router that your neighbor buys, the "internet" Cat 5/6 network port, goes to any open wired output on your ISP's router. This will give his router internet access, and it already has it's own wireless network.
But as @Sheepish-Lord said, you need to adjust some settings. On the new wireless router that he buys (go into that routers menu), you need to make sure that dhcp is turned off (this is what assigns IP address to devices that connect to that new router, this is what a "router" is, the assigning of IP addresses, there can only be one). Then you want to give it an acceptable name and password.
In the end you also need to make sure that the wireless frequencies do not conflict, otherwise you could lose range between both your ISPs wireless network and the new one he buys.
@Sheepish-Lord might be right... Just give him the wireless SSID and password, just make sure your wireless password is different than the ISP's router password.
OP wants control through software…
That alone should tell you lots of things. @Sheepish-Lord is correct.
Can your neighbor see the network? Don’t give him the router’s password, just the network password. Just know that often, the default router user name is “admin” and password is “password”. So you might want to change those.