Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability

alvvayson@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WiFi already manages this. Systems set up like eduroam have a student sign in to their university WiFi one time and have access to WiFi across their campus and all other universities that support eduroam.

  There are also commercial options. ISPs offer a similar service where you enable your home router to broadcast a ISP connection point alongside your normal WiFi access point. This enables you to join any other ISP connection point where ever you go.

  The issue with this is control. You would have to give up control of your access point to the centralised system. So your internet access may be limited by other people using your line.

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  • CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And not to mention liability issues if you share a network like that with neighbors. If they start doing illegal stuff while connected to your router, you are on the hook for it.

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    • Rootiest@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Who needs a VPN when I can just use my neighbor’s hotspot to torrent and let them get the DMCA notices!

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    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, that possibility is why you’re not on the hook for it. An ip address is not enough to prove what person did it.

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      • CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        legalmatch.com/…/wi-fi-network-criminal-liability…

        If you knowingly share your connection with someone else and then they go on to do illegal activities with it, you can be held liable.

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have to imagine that on routers where the ISP offers a parallel portal through your gear, they isolate the other user’s traffic from your home network and will trace any illegal activity back to that particular subscriber.

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• Rapidcreek@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  5G has a VPN capability and fits your requirements.

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• 4am@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t some ISPs (like Xfinity) already do this by making a second WiFi network so that anyone with their service can just roam between routers?

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