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• Docus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WTF is a wifi company?

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  • Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re singling out a single company that makes these WiFi pod thingies

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• noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TL;DR “buy our VPN”

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  • F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TL;DR: Don’t buy Mesh WiFi, especially if offered at a low price/subscription by your ISP. Use old-fashioned routers and access points.

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    • hobovision@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get why ISP provided routers and some brands of mesh router would collect and sell data but what is it about “mesh” that is particularly bad here? I have a cheap TP Link router that is apparently mesh compatible but it seems like a traditional router in all the other way. Should I be concerned?

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    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To me it seems more nuanced.

      First, a VPN won’t solve much because this garbage will still be able to log connection periods (when you are home), signal strengths changing over time, (where are you in your home), and traffic bursts (when are you doing something on your phone or other devices).

      Second, this is not about mesh WiFi, as I understand. Install OpenWRT, and the mesh function of that won’t do any of this.
      The problem is with new (but probably preexisting too) router brands who’s sole purpose is making all the unknowing customers into a product, but stealing their private life and giving it away for money (or anything else).
      The problem is basically that a facebook-like company has got deep insight into your network, which you can’t avoid using, especially if your ISP forced you to use these garbage.

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    • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just buy old Ruckus units and run the mesh on their Unleashed firmware. Still worse than wired backhaul, but better than running a VPN entirely internal to your own network.

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  • nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are a number of other options listed, but that is one of them.

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  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A VPN wouldn’t even help there. The spies are not in front of your door, but directly in your house.

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• sj_zero ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Always seems self-evident that equipment you don't own and control isn't going to work on your behalf.
• tudor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Buy your own router. Ditched my ISP modem, never looked back. The control, the features, all of it is now necessary to me.

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