Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers

• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  trying to protect the paid plans they sell for connecting more than one device

  It’s definitely 90% of the reason

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• 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.

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  • 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)

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Is this a problem with 5G networks? There are more channels and they don’t go through walls as well, right?

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• 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.

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