Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
The reason they don’t want you using your own WiFi access point is probably because dorms are prone to over congestion if everyone sets up their own WiFi network.
If you wanted to fuck with them-and you don’t mind spending money-then you could set up your WiFi and get internet via mobile carrier or starlink, so that you never actually have to agree to their terms. Then when/if someone comes around to bitch at you you can watch them slowly come to the conclusion that they’ve got nothing on you.
Otherwise your options are to follow the rules to the letter and live without vr streaming, or accept that you might get in trouble. Some WiFi routers can be configured to not advertise their network; annoying because you’ll have to manually enter the network information on every device, but it might keep you from getting caught.
As for connecting multiple devices without paying; there’s probably some creative ways to tunnel all your traffic through a single device to get around that. Could still get you in trouble if you’re caught.
If you’re doing anything that could get you in trouble with the school make sure you save the email in which they told you using your own router is allowed.
Some WiFi routers can be configured to not advertise their network; annoying because you’ll have to manually enter the network information on every device, but it might keep you from getting caught.
Just name the network something like Samsung S20 Personal Hotspot. They’re not gonna look into why a student created a Hotspot with their phone.
Or, shit - lock the fucking door.
If it’s a dorm they have the key.
IT does? Damn, didn’t know - my bad. Where I’m from IT doesn’t have the keys, and the people that do have the keys know better than to try entering people’s dorms, unless it’s really something critical. Wifi doesn’t qualify.
Where I went to college, they probably didn’t directly have the key, that’d have to go through maintenance. But one of the things you signed on to initially was for maintenance to enter if they needed to while you were out.
Plus, at least half of the WAPs were actually in rooms and not hallways, so to service the network beyond IDF problems they’d have to get in
You don’t actually need internet for the VR streaming part, so you could just set up a router not plugged into the wall
You do if you are rendering in the cloud, e.g NVIDIA CloudXR. Not sure what OP plans to do.
NVIDIA CloudXR
that’s an incredibly tiny edge case.
Sure yet it’s a perfectly legitimate one. I’m not OP, it might be exactly their use case.
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 4 months ago
Ah such a masterful plan, paying for your own internet
Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Tbf you’re paying for the college to provide you internet.
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 4 months ago
Ah but that one isn’t your own it’s shared
Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I got news for you about almost every ISP