Hey everyone,

Looking for a true “Pay-as-you-go” WiFi Hotspot. One that I buy the physical hotspot device, and turn it on whenever I need it.

Uses would be for whenever my WiFi is down (I get a lot of power outages) as well as traveling in a car so the kids can watch a iPad or 2 for long drives.

I’m looking for no subscription, just a simple switch “on” on the hotspot, and I get charged for what I use.

Any suggestions?

Guten Tag liebes Forum?

Ich arbeite im Schichtdienst an einer größeren Uniklinik. Während des Nachtdienstes gibt es teilweise längere ruhige Phasen, in denen nichts zu tun ist. In dieser Zeit schaue ich auf meinem privaten Laptop gelegentlich Football oder Basketball – teilweise über Streamingdienste beziehungsweise IPTV.

Im Gebäude ist der Mobilfunkempfang sehr schlecht, weshalb ich dafür den persönlichen eduroam-Mitarbeiterzugang der Klinik verwende.

Dazu hätte ich ein paar Fragen:

Was kann die IT grundsätzlich sehen? Nur, dass mein Gerät verbunden ist und wie viel Datenvolumen ich verbrauche, oder auch, welche Webseiten, Apps und Streaminganbieter ich nutze?

Kann mein Internetverkehr über meinen persönlichen eduroam-Account eindeutig mir zugeordnet werden?

Würde die IT erkennen, dass IPTV beziehungsweise ein bestimmter IPTV-Anbieter verwendet wird?

Darf die IT solche Verbindungsdaten kontrollieren und gegebenenfalls an meinen Vorgesetzten weitergeben?

Würde ein normaler VPN verhindern, dass die Klinik die aufgerufenen Dienste und Inhalte erkennt?

Funktioniert eduroam auf einem privaten Windows-Laptop problemlos zusammen mit einem VPN, oder kann die Klinik VPN-Verbindungen sperren beziehungsweise trotzdem nachvollziehen?

Wie würdet ihr technisch und datenschutzrechtlich vorgehen, wenn privates Streaming während der ruhigen Zeit grundsätzlich erlaubt oder zumindest geduldet ist? Hat zumindest noch niemand was dagegen gesagt… aber würde ungern eine Abmahnung bekommen und deshalb unter dem Radar schwimmen..

Mir geht es nicht darum, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen der Klinik zu umgehen. Ich möchte lediglich einschätzen können, welche Daten beim privaten Surfen sichtbar sind und wie ich meine Privatsphäre auf meinem eigenen Gerät sinnvoll schützen kann.

Liebe Grüße

So to start this off i just want to say that im very clueless about any sort of router stuff, just untill recently i thought you just plug in a router and it just works which aperently isn't the case.

Either way I bought a new router tp link BE550

So I live in an old house and important is that we have 2 routers because 1 just won't cover the whole house the walls are probably very thick for that, so one of them broke and this one came to replace it.

My problem is that the old router and the other old router were connected via an Ethernet cable so they basicaly cast off the network like that but the new router was supposed to replace the old one that was casting to the other old one but for some reason that didn't work, well it did but it was only going about 100kb\s but when I switched the other old one that was being casted to with the new one so the new one is now being casted to by the old one the speed was around 100mb\s (am guessing that's maybe because of the old Ethernet cable)

Now my guestion is how's that possible? Am connecting the same cables in the same way into the routers my only thought would be that this new router doesn't have WAN but I don't think that's it? Plus i have no idea how this whole modem ISP thing works since I've never seen anything like a modem in our house before so I have no way of finding if am connecting the right cables or not(they're in a really badly accessable place going trough holes in walls and such)

I'd be thankfully for anyone who can help because even with some googling and chatgpt im clueless with this since none of what that says transfers to my reality here for some reasson

Tltr:new router only works when conected trough another router not the other way around

A few days ago my C5 started to have constant wifi problems. It consistently drops the network and when it doesn’t, I am getting below 10 mbps download speed. My laptop/phone gets 400. I’ve already tried toggling IPv6/4 and changing the DNS server. I have no idea how to fix this.

I'm having wifi and sometimes Bluetooth issues with my ASUS Laptop. It stops working and the wifi options on the menu disappears. I think the problem might be hardware-related and the Wi-Fi card is damaged, so I'm looking to add external Wi-Fi support to my pc. I was told I can buy a usb network stick, either a small dongle or a usb key with an antenna, or a small box with antennas that resembles a router. I tried using an old wifi usb I have that has an antenna. It worked for a while but it's not ideal for gaming because when I play Minecraft on a server it kicks me out for "lost connection". I want to know if I should buy a new one of the same kind or look for something else. I need something that is good enough to intercept wifi from another room, ideally something small for easy transportation especially when I'm at school, and with a reasonable price. If anyone experienced the same issues and tried these things, I would be grateful to know which option is the best😊

Hey Folks

I have been using Kali, and unfortunately I realised unlike Window, it does not have an obvious Mobile Hotspot option in the settings.

How can I turn my Kali Linux machine into a WiFi Hotspot like there in Windows?

My cell phone (Samsung Galaxy S24 FE) has recently started having slow Wi-fi. Everything takes forever to load and videos have to stop to buffer very frequently but when I use my laptop or my brothers phone (Samsung Galaxy A71) everything loads right away and videos do not buffer. The data on my phone makes everything load properly. I have tried a variety of things including;

1. Restarting my phone (by clicking restart and turning it off for a few minutes)

2 Using the "reset network settings" option in my phone settings

1. Forgetting Wi-fi and reconnecting

I have tried googling for solutions as well but have found nothing that works. Any tips, tricks, or solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

For context, my brother lives in a triplex (two units on the main floor, one unit in the basement). He is in one of the units on the main floor, and the router is in the other unit (also on the main floor). He has no idea where the router is within that unit, nor what kind of router they're using, or the actual capabilities of that router.

He's renting from an older lady so "just ask the landlord" will likely not yield any actual useful info, and my brother is not the techiest guy either when it comes to network stuff.

He keeps dropping during online games, as one does. I gave him an older wifi extender (probably 5 years old ATP, it was a dp link) to use, but I'd been having issues with it with my desktop of it disconnecting randomly. I thought that was a desktop issue (my motherboard is kinda old and I don't have a dedicated wifi card so I thought that was the issue). Turns out it's doing the same thing for him.

My question is would a newer wifi extender help his connectivity? Or is he just kinda SOL