sounds like a perfect setup for a torrent farm. they can’t stop you because you’re forced to pay for it.
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henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
My HOA bundles an Internet plan directly into their fees, giving me absolutely zero choice whatsoever. It’s exorbitantly priced too at $100 a month. It’s getting more popular to do this in my state because it blocks you from even using wireless carriers like for Verizon for your service.
Fuck you commissioner and fuck everything you represent.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
do it. get a good VPN and do it. I know how these networks are usually architected - they probably will never notice. use as much bandwidth as you can over a VPN and they’ll probably never really see it. also there’s likely no bandwidth cap, since the fiber circuits that feed these units are also usually uncapped in terms of how much data they can pass per billing period, unlike Spectrum/Comcast/VZ/all the other shit ISPs out there.
I know I don’t notice a heavy user when I look at my metrics and even if I did, I don’t get paid to care. just don’t get caught with your VPN off, they probably will see that and disable your service or give you a call and tell you you’re being a bad user a la Skippy.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
highly recommend using containerized torrents through a VPN.
I have transmission and openvpn containers. when the network goes down transmission can’t connect since it’s networked through the ovpn container.
once the vpn is restored, everything restarts and resumes where it left off.
ever since I’ve had this setup running, I haven’t had a nastygram sent to me.
forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
100%, I think this is the way to go especially if you don’t want to get way into the specifics e.g. VLANs and jazz as I did
j0ester@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There is a condo they just finished making in my state. They stated your Internet is priced into the HOA fee - and there was absolutely no wired Ethernet; only wireless. It was $3,000/month for 850 sq ft + $500/month HOA fee.
forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
yeah, this sounds about right. it’s predatory af and also the ISPs are usually pretty shit too. Most of these providers charge absolutely insane rates compared to their costs (because they can), and the people paying the ISPs aren’t the tenants - it’s the HOA or owners, and they don’t care that the users are being overcharged, so it just goes on and on.
They often have preferential access to wiring, rack, and roof space, as well as fiber runs, they actively keep other ISPs out of the building.
source: network engineer for an ISP, and deal with these antics daily.
Zenith@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Is it a covenant?
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
get a lawyer and see if you can exit the hoa agreement because of some caveats
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is a massive reason I completely avoid HOAs. I don’t want some busybodies deciding what I can and can’t do with my property, and I’m okay with my neighborhood being less uniform as a result.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Some areas can be a lot worse than “less uniform”.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The Redneck doing oil changes in his front yard is fully within his rights. Mind your own business.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
That’s also not what I’m referring to. I work in real estate so I’ve seen it all: