Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 week ago
That seems pretty standard stuff. My dorm had the same policy, because they operated their own mesh network and didn’t want students sending out their own radio signals that would have absolutely made their network not work well.
Is there some reason you need your own router?
mat@linux.community 1 week ago
Yeah, the interference argument is fair, but I think this is also the ISP (totally separate third party) trying to protect the paid plans they sell for connecting more than one device…
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s definitely 90% of the reason
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 week ago
So it’s a network operated by a third party? That’s interesting. The handful of universities I’ve been to maintain their own.
kalleboo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Where I went to school, originally the dorms were on the university network but a year in they offloaded us onto regular, commercial ISPs. The change was great for us since the university network was very strict on stuff like torrents (using DPI any torrent, even legal, got you disconnected for 24h)
ngwoo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My university had student apartments, each had their own router. No weird rules since it wasn’t the university’s network at all, it belonged to whoever lived in the apartment. Full router access, connect whatever, put it in bridge mode and connect your own if you want.
Telorand@reddthat.com 1 week ago
If there’s enough space between them, it would be less of an issue. If it was in a multifamily high rise with hundreds of units, I would expect it to cause issues.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In that case, just set up a router level VPN. The university probably doesn’t give a shit. Which is why the help desk IT kid said it’s fine, probably.
It’s the 3rd party ISP just being greedy. The ISP may not even care as long as you’re not running an insane amount of traffic through it. Often this type of stuff is added to TOSs to allow them the option, if you’re being a bad actor.