As a little background to the question, I’m moving from where I live because cost of living is way too high. I have found a few apartments that are within my budget but they all have “complementary WiFi”. Is there anything I should be aware of?
As a little background to the question, I’m moving from where I live because cost of living is way too high. I have found a few apartments that are within my budget but they all have “complementary WiFi”. Is there anything I should be aware of?
Sure! The idiot who owns the building basically hired the cheapest people he could find and it shows. In pretty much everything.
But as for the networking: every flat is on the same LAN. Which makes managing it impossible because the ISP’s Mikrotik is basically what your router usually does.
The flats are separated by some VLAN magic, but the technician was bitching around for two hours when he was setting it up.
For me that means that whenever I want to open a port, I have to call my ISP. And that setting up a lan-backed mesh network at home I had to be very creative.