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> convincing residents to shut their personal ones down in favor of a robust replacement. You would soon be looking at oopsies like mirroring onto someone else
by oefrha 4y ago
> convincing residents to shut their personal ones down in favor of a robust replacement.
You would soon be looking at oopsies like mirroring onto someone else’s TV, or a bored teenager hacking into everyone else’s “smart” Internet of Shit devices. WPA2 personal just isn’t secure for shared residential use.
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoI know it's far from perfect. But there has got to be an answer for it. Because everyone running their own WAP is a massive duplication of resources, it's literally a waste of power citywide, every's got a separate ISP bill, and it's clogging the airwaves, making everyone's reception quite lousy in the process. Multi-family apartments have communal services on purpose. We have a central A/C chiller. We have communal laundry rooms, not machines in every unit. Our hot water heating is done centrally. We have maintenance men on staff for repairs. Subcontractors serve the entire property through deals with the landlord, not individual units. I get that people like to customize and trick out their own networks, but we're a community of sysadmins. My neighbors are not, and I'd bet you that misconfiguration is the norm for personally-managed networks. There is a better case for single-family homes doing it, but apartment dwellers should not be running their own ISPs.
- em-bee 4y agothe "solution" is most likely that a shared wifi will be good enough for 90% of the people, and the 10% of us that want to do something different will still get to run our own access-points. the problem i see is the placement of access points so that they can be maintained without entering peoples homes but still reach every room.