I just moved into a student dorm for a semester abroad, and beforehand I emailed them asking whether they had ethernet ports to plug my router into (I use it to connect all my devices, and for WiVRn VR streaming). They confirmed that I could, but now that I’m here the wifi login portal is asking me to accept these terms from the ISP, which forbid plugging in a router. There’s another clause that forbids “Disruptive Devices” entirely, defined as:
“Disruptive Device” means any device that prevents or interferes with our provision of the 4Wireless to other customers (such as a wireless access point such as wireless routers) or any other device used by you in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy;
So what are my options? I don’t think I can use this service without accepting the terms, but also I was told by the student dorm support that I could bring a router, which contradicts this.
I’m in the UK, not sure if they have their own british version of the FCC or just follow their rules but it might be different. The router/AP is a tp link Archer C6, which I use as it is performant enough to do VR streaming w/o stutters or high latency.
This is for the A7 but may show you how to turn off wifi on yours if the UI is the same
https://community.tp-link.com/us/home/forum/topic/560824
Thanks. I do unfortunately need wifi to do wireless VR streaming… I guess I need to find a way to tune it to interfere the least, but this is a whole alien world to me.
Looks like that model allows you to go down to 50% (Options are Low/50, medium/75 and full)
But looks like your router might be supported by openwrt, if you can get that working you can set the power as low as you want
https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer_c6_v2