today i learned that a new trend in internet service is to provide you with routers that you can't turn off the wifi
the Altice GR241AG optic fibre IPTV/VoIP router has a "smart wifi" feature enabled which works with mesh wifi network systems and you have to call the damn provider to actually turn it off
i even popped open this box and disconnected what looked like typical wifi antenna sockets and the damn wifi is still detected at nearly half strength by my phone
probably will have to do some research but i am pretty sure i should be able to get some typical standard optical ethernet router that doesn't have wifi in it at all...
on the bright side, nothing is connected to it... but on teh other side, it's sending out a beacon 10 times a second or something to advertise its existence
part of the reason why this is really dumb is that some people have their own infrastructure requirements, and these baked in settings mean that you can literally get a degradation of the function of your own hardware because of the interference on the channel
even before you put into the formula that someone might actually NOT WANT ANY MICROWAVE RADIO aside from the unavoidable GSM in a dumbphone
hell, i'd love to even ditch that and just have a voip line and when i'm out, tough shit, call back later, leave a message jackass
mleku
npub1fj…mleku
2024-11-08 14:09:55
Author Public Key
npub1fjqqy4a93z5zsjwsfxqhc2764kvykfdyttvldkkkdera8dr78vhsmmlekuPublished at
2024-11-08 14:09:55Event JSON
{
"id": "e7556a7cb47d405c808a0e88e6c0a3518eed6b4c9fcb64871db382edd40d83f0",
"pubkey": "4c800257a588a82849d049817c2bdaad984b25a45ad9f6dad66e47d3b47e3b2f",
"created_at": 1731074995,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"client",
"noStrudel",
"31990:266815e0c9210dfa324c6cba3573b14bee49da4209a9456f9484e5106cd408a5:1686066542546"
]
],
"content": "today i learned that a new trend in internet service is to provide you with routers that you can't turn off the wifi\n\nthe Altice GR241AG optic fibre IPTV/VoIP router has a \"smart wifi\" feature enabled which works with mesh wifi network systems and you have to call the damn provider to actually turn it off\n\ni even popped open this box and disconnected what looked like typical wifi antenna sockets and the damn wifi is still detected at nearly half strength by my phone\n\nprobably will have to do some research but i am pretty sure i should be able to get some typical standard optical ethernet router that doesn't have wifi in it at all... \n\non the bright side, nothing is connected to it... but on teh other side, it's sending out a beacon 10 times a second or something to advertise its existence\n\npart of the reason why this is really dumb is that some people have their own infrastructure requirements, and these baked in settings mean that you can literally get a degradation of the function of your own hardware because of the interference on the channel\n\neven before you put into the formula that someone might actually NOT WANT ANY MICROWAVE RADIO aside from the unavoidable GSM in a dumbphone\n\nhell, i'd love to even ditch that and just have a voip line and when i'm out, tough shit, call back later, leave a message jackass",
"sig": "bedc778c5879dd9f8c467d709ea388cafdc6cf69756f621f8360698481f1f80365b28d6885754982a90928030bf54e0dd35e814e4f8b26e78bf20cd290ed69a2"
}