Amazingly, those are advertised as "included amenities", as if they were a good thing. I'm sure a large number of people are fine with the idea of a managed internet - or they just don't understand.
sfpk 9 hours ago [-]
They often make you pay for Cable TV as well as part of the managed amenities, whether you want it or not.
Wowfunhappy 7 hours ago [-]
Do they block individual wired connections too, or only Wi-Fi?
Asking residents to refrain from setting up their own wireless access points actually seems like it could be reasonable? It might lead to less congestion and better performance for everyone.
I'm reminded of my college dorm. Every room had an ethernet jack, and there was a communal Wi-Fi network, but students were asked to not create their own Wi-Fi hotspots.
fragmede 6 hours ago [-]
Yes because inevitably a student would plug their Ethernet jack into the LAN ports and start serving bad DHCP to the rest of the dorm.
Wowfunhappy 5 hours ago [-]
I really think they were just concerned about Wi-Fi congestion.
xhkkffbf 7 hours ago [-]
This is even a problem in neighborhoods where the townhouses are pretty close to each other. I was in one and there were fifty hot spots that were visible.
spottedmarley 9 hours ago [-]
Get a mobile hotspot. I've been using one (Verizon) practically as my only internet provider for a while now. 5G up and down speeds are totally acceptable for everything I do. And there's nothing an apartment complex can do about it. You can also share your phone's internet with other devices. Obviously the real answer is to not live there! But if you must, it's not an internet death sentence.
nxobject 3 hours ago [-]
I agree – the introduction of 5G base stations is absolutely crushing cable monopolies. It's beautiful to see. I remember the day I called Comcast to say "goodbye, I'm switching, and no I don't want to bundle a phone plan with my unreliable cable connection."
linuxkernal 7 hours ago [-]
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4d4m 7 hours ago [-]
Starlink or 5g att/tmobile are a likely option
nijave 6 hours ago [-]
A lot of apartments specifically forbid outdoor radio equipment outside which might make Starlink difficult. 5G should be fine
4d4m 6 hours ago [-]
Very true! Ah sorry meant to clarify this is on the inside windows, with some expected performance degradation.
contingencies 4 hours ago [-]
Had this in China years ago. The solution was we dressed up a worker from my fiber optic provider in a borrowed cable provider uniform to haul the cable. It took months to arrange, but I was pretty amused when it worked!
hurricanepootis 8 hours ago [-]
Honestly, what's stopping a high rise building from doing an internal GPON/XGS-PON distribution to all the buildings inside?
Here's an old example https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/432/topics/554933-cable...
Asking residents to refrain from setting up their own wireless access points actually seems like it could be reasonable? It might lead to less congestion and better performance for everyone.
I'm reminded of my college dorm. Every room had an ethernet jack, and there was a communal Wi-Fi network, but students were asked to not create their own Wi-Fi hotspots.