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>It is the right of universities and employers to disallow WiFi hotspots as a condition of being on the property. You may be confusing a wifi hotspot with a wi
by halfcat 12y ago
>It is the right of universities and employers to disallow WiFi hotspots as a condition of being on the property.
You may be confusing a wifi hotspot with a wifi router. It's certainly reasonable for the owners of a physical network to disallow users to plug in their own wifi routers, especially because it can cause problems, even potentially taking down the entire network with loops and rogue DHCP servers. There are ways the owner can prevent those problems, but it comes at higher cost of equipment
I don't see why a hotspot would be any different than a mobile phone. Some places tell you to turn them off, because it interrupts the movie, and they may ask you to leave if you don't. But they don't jam phones and provide high cost alternatives.
- DanBC 12y agoUS universities ban wireless access points from dorms. They want to know who is using the network and wireless access points remove some of that control.
- rahimnathwani 12y agoYes but that's about controlling access to their own network. They don't ban you from operating a wifi hotspot using a 3G-connected device like a mifi or a phone with tethering.
- zardeh 12y agoFurthermore, at scale, interference sucks.