The college owns the facilities and you agreed to their terms when you moved in. They don’t have to search for an access point in a room, they can start threatening until someone fesses up or gets rid of it. It’s hard to pinpoint the location, but it isn’t hard to find the location down to a single room or a couple neighbors.
The school has no ability to see into traffic on connections outside their infrastructure.
Sounds like you completely misunderstood my suggestion, which has zero contact with anything owned by the college.
Yes. I get 700+ GB at high speeds shared by 7 people for $55 a month
and the US is a lot more expensive and slower than 95% of other countries
yes wired access is fine, but that is assuming they really are patrolling the campus looking for hotspots
which seems silly.
OP is not even necessarily in student housing,
prolly just looking to scam uni bandwidth for free
I’m not saying they can’t have rules against it ; I’m saying such rules are in practice impossible to enforce
You couldn’t very well have your own internet connection installed in a building owner by the university.
700gb at high speeds for $55 per month isn’t more expensive and slower than 95% of countries. A significant portion of the world doesn’t even have internet.
Also they don’t need to patrol campus looking for hotspots. If they use Cisco routers for example, their Cisco system will send an alert to the IT team about a “rogue AP” aka a device broadcasting wifi without being a known device to the enterprise network shortly after it begins broadcasting. They will also be notified of roughly where the rogue AP is located.
Judging by how OP mentioned being in a dorm, he is probably living on campus and has no other option than campus wifi
wireless, cell data, does not need any physical connection “installed”
Yeah but the speeds are unusable
Depends.
We get 70+Mbps nearly everywhere we go these days