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.

    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      Yeah, any off the shelf network intrusion software would probably immediately flag either of those based solely on the amount of traffic.

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      26 days ago

      Well it would be obvious. Any decent network tool would be able to filter traffic on a port or type (ICMP, DNS, etc).

      “Wonder why this kid has 2.5Gb of DNS traffic last week? That isn’t normal. Maybe we should go check it out”

      The trick to staying hidden is to look like noise. And this would not be noise.