You can also put a heavy resistor inline of the antenna.
Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points
by Filligree on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:32AM
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If you can do that, you could just unplug the antenna.
Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points
by MartijnBraam on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:48AM
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But they want the router back if you switch provider. If you void the warrenty then I have to pay for it.
Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points
by superuser2 on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @12:56PM
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I don't see why this is a problem. You want to free load on other people's connections but not share your own? (In the US anyway, the free wifi you get for running that secondary SSID just comes from other people's personal connections).
This is why we can't have nice things. I hope they find a way to defeat people doing this, but my guess is it would be prohibitively expensive (war driving entire cities, etc).
Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points
by MartijnBraam on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @02:47PM
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The problem is that I don't have the bandwidth for it. If a single user connects to the free accesspoint and starts skype r a youtube video then I cannot use the internet anymore.
Re:Weirdly broken Wi-Fi access points
by uabstraction on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @10:01PM
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I had this problem with my Optimum router. I actually got better performance by throwing it in the closet and using a $30 dollar piece of crap instead (which has since been replaced). Sadly, it seems that everything in the consumer networking market is a trap.
This is mainly because those networks are deployed by adding an second SSID to the router with WPA enterprise auth. The solution many people choose is putting the router in the basement with a lot of aluminium foil around it.