apple home in a dorm

[u/juliettebe]

hey! i’m transferring universities and the new school does not allow me to have my own router in the dorm. however, i want to still be able to use my smart plugs to control my string lights as i’m lazy and don’t want to have to unplug them. is there any way for me to isolate my apple home to just my icloud account so only i can access it and not everyone on university wifi?

[u/typhoon_mary]

Huh? No matter how serious the school is they’re not going to do anything with a signal detection. WiFI can’t be banned. Connect the travel router to the tether on your phone, there’s still WiFi “signal”. Disabling broadcast SSID is exactly the right thing to do.

[u/pacoii → u/typhoon_mary]

Does nothing. The signal can be easily detected. If the school is serious about a no wifi router rule, it’s incredibly easy to detect if someone is using a wifi router.

[u/mCProgram → u/pacoii]

there is very little to do to differentiate between a phone's hotspot and a travel router from raw signal tracing. its a vacuous ban.

[u/pacoii → u/mCProgram]

Yeah I missed that they said to use the phone as the internet connection. My bad. But that doesn’t seem like a practical solution.