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In my particular case it’s happening in my condo and all of my families devices routinely switch between my real network and the 1-bar hotspots several floors a
by newZWhoDis 4y ago
In my particular case it’s happening in my condo and all of my families devices routinely switch between my real network and the 1-bar hotspots several floors away.
It’s impossible for me to disable and breaks all local connections to things like PLEX, as well as kid safety/adult content filtering.
- m463 4y agoKilling local network access is an actual bug. related - I wonder if this is specific to esim or if this would happen with a regular sim too? and can you just call your carrier? I had a comcast business router and it started broadcasting an open comcast wifi access point (for comcast customers). I called and asked them to turn it off and they did.
- BanjoBass 4y agoI just checked my phone, There were 3 verizon networks in there I don't recognize. I'm using a regular SIM.
- newZWhoDis 4y agoThe carrier told me to contact apple. And in my case, I can’t exactly harass all my neighbors to disable their “free hotspot”. I should be able to control my own phone and dictate what it does/does not connect to.
- m463 4y ago> I should be able to control my own phone That battle was lost a long time ago. I should be able to restrict (or know) what the apps do. I should be able to firewall my phone. I should be able to access the files on it. But in the end, only apple decides this, and their decisions are self-serving.
- marktangotango 4y agoSheesh, a linux phone can't come fast enough.
- fsflover 4y agoWhat do you mean? Sent from my Librem 5.
- rolph 4y agomorally you cant but actually you can, go to a few thift shops, get enough routers to cover all channels, create many screaming imposter networks portal eachone to something not pretty, soon[day or 2] you will see the original network gone. beware of FCC.
- quesera 4y agoThis is perfectly legal, FCC will not care. But it will not work.
- rolph 4y agosaturating the air with [SSID] at high dB across all channels absolutely will work, it compels the operator of [SSID] to turn it off and buy another router. the high dB signal is where the FCC Will care.
- quesera 4y agoThere is no way ATT is going to abandon the attwifi SSID. You did not mention exceeding Part 15 emitter limits in your previous post.
- rolph 4y agoscreaming was mentioned, and im not talking about making ATT abandon the attwifi SSID im talking about the end user abandoning the onsite equipment.
- lxgr 4y agoThat’s not how 802.11 works. If your device can’t connect to a given BSSID that’s broadcasting an SSID it wants, it will put that BSSID on an ignore list and try the next one, whatever the received signal strength. You can of course saturate the entire spectrum, but that breaks every network, not just the SSIDs you’re "waging war" against, and will probably get you a visit by the FCC sooner or later. Maybe you could broadcast thousands of spoofed BSSIDs; I have no idea about the legality of that, and the legitimate operator of the SSID might not find that too funny and take legal action against you as well, as that would be pretty transparent denial of service on a public band.
- mr_toad 4y ago> Killing local network access is an actual bug. Yeah in additional to any local servers you have it would break continuity (handoff etc), it would break casting. Sounds very poorly thought through.
- conductr 4y agoIt amazes me how features like this make it through to release and seemingly nobody considered this very basic experience of your home being hijacked