Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 week agoIf they go looking. It’s unlikely they went out of their way to purchase and configure specialized devices in the building to catch it proactively.
Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 week agoIf they go looking. It’s unlikely they went out of their way to purchase and configure specialized devices in the building to catch it proactively.
stoly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I work IT at a university. They do go looking for this sort of thing. Every time students move in and plug in their equipment from home, entire network segments collapse. There is a game of whack a mole each time the term starts.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If somebody goes and causes an outage, I would expect nothing less than a tech walking around and trying to triangulate the offending router.
But in OP’s case, it’s an external ISP that provides internet services to the dorm. As long as nobody gives them a reason to start looking, I don’t expect a for-profit ISP to be sending out a contractor proactively beyond the first week of move-ins. That costs them money, and likely a lot more money than they would recover by catching the handful of people trying to dogde the per-device upcharge.
stoly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You may be right. The sales side lines up a contract, installer comes out, and they move on.