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I cannot fathom why this kind of "phone home" behavior is necessary to operate a router. Lets call it what it is, a kill switch.
by rockshassa 12y ago
I cannot fathom why this kind of "phone home" behavior is necessary to operate a router. Lets call it what it is, a kill switch.
- oe 12y agoCan the feature be switched off? If not, that sounds pretty awful.
- danudey 12y agoiOS (and presumably Android) has a similar functionality, but at least in iOS's case it's to find out if the device should consider this wifi to be 'working' (and send traffic via WiFi) or 'blocked' (and continue using the mobile data network). I can't think of any reason to have this failover behaviour on a consumer router that isn't multihomed. It's not the router's job to ensure that my internet is working according to some predefined rules, when there is no tangible benefit to doing so.