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  • jet@hackertalks.comtoTechnology@lemmy.worldStudent dorm does not allow wifi routers
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    2 days ago

    Happily the 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands are unlicensed and open for public use.

    Nothing our OP said indicated they wanted to run WiFi, but even if they did, they could choose a less noisy channel.

    Nothing in the click through agreement talked about radios, or bands.

    Any body could turn their phone into a cellular hotspot, or have a starlink hotspot, and that is nobody elses business. This is no different.

    Letting the network dictate what you can run in your own home is MaBell levels of authoritarianism, but more to the point, its unenforceable ( You can always take a page out of how to hotspot book - Router runs a always on vpn and the lan side only goes out over the VPN, so DPI just seeds the router, and the TTL is as expected)


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    I’m with you, but how is using your own router messing that up?

    On the WAN side, its just a dhcp client, just like any other laptop/xbox etc

    It’s not reasonable for a ISP to dictate what CPE can be used on the network, as long as the CPE does not break the network, and routers are fairly well behaved clients by design.

    Just from a data hygiene and security perspective, you don’t want to put your own computer directly into a bigger network, safter to be behind your own router.