As a little background to the question, I’m moving from where I live because cost of living is way too high. I have found a few apartments that are within my budget but they all have “complementary WiFi”. Is there anything I should be aware of?

  • TheWeirdestCunt@lemmy.today
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    4 days ago

    My uni dorms used to have ethernet ports in them but someone came along and disconnected them all when they joined the Eduroam system so now anyone on campus has to use WiFi. I ended up having to install WiFi dongles on my pc when I moved in because I couldn’t figure out why the port wasn’t working.

    • adhd_traco@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      I had a similar situation where my internet source was Wifi via the guest network of the landlord’s router. Eventually I setup an openwrt router which connected to that guest wifi as client, and networked it to ethernet connected devices. Since this meant I couldn’t use wifi on my own network (hardware limitations, I guess), I connected another router to that one via ethernet to distribute wifi as well. Don’t wanna know how many network problems this created, NAT was the obvious one.