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A splash screen for the internet portal at a Hampton Inn. The text says:

"We are pleased to provide you with internet service during your stay. By clicking below, you agree not to download, share or otherwise use others' copyrighted content, such as movies, music, computer games or television shows without proper authorization."

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[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I wonder how hard it would be to set up a hidden raspberry pi proxy server on the hampton inn's wifi and use it as a torrent vpn.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well, considering that even their premium wifi will usually only get about 29 Mbps down at the high end, it won't be super effective.

[–] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is basically what I get at home, on average, despite paying for 100Mb/s, because capitalism says you can use the words "up to" when you sell something that will likely never reach that number.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

classic. isp's always over promise and under deliver. in this case it's not that there's not more headroom available, it's just that they throttle non priority devices leaving us high and dry when you're trying to play a game and use voice

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It doesn't sound like effectiveness is their goal anyway.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

fair enough, I may have a different perception of hotel wifi than the average person due to extensive work travel.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Use a router setup to combine network connections for throughput, setup in a box with solar in motel central, and tada, you're risking someone else's connection.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I already use a glinet beryl ax for all my hotel stays- they're typically 8 weeks at a time so it's important for me to be able to isolate myself from their standard network.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For anyone else curious:

https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/

Looks like it has built in wireguard vpn client support, so you can connect to an external vpn server and route all traffic to it automatically from all your devices.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

can confirm that it works well, however ease of use typically keeps me off of the vpn for my quest 3. it does occasionally glitch out a bit since newer hotel networks are usually dualband so you'll have to manually set the beryl to only accept 5ghz otherwise it'll frequently deauth. I've noticed that sometimes it'll also deauth if there's another beryl on the same network. It's kind of like playing whack a mole with deauthing.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago

Only as hard as managing logging into WiFi/the captive portal.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

You mean a GL.iNet travel router?

Main difficulty is gonna be the SATA stuff.