Re:Warning: Wi-Fi Blocking Is Prohibited
by gramsey on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @07:25PM
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Right, of course they have the right to prevent me from connecting to their network. But as I understand the FCC advisory, they do not have the right to stop me from using my own personal cellular hotspot, for example.
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Does your university actually block all other wireless networks near / on campus? This is prohibited by the FCC.
At my university, the wireless APs would scan for others and try to detect if they were on-network using a student's auth. They'd tell the student to remove the AP if they wanted to continue to have access to the school network. Wireless, off-network hotspots were allowed, provided they weren't impersonating the school network.