My landlord doesn't want me to buy wifi?

[Lord Furdle]

That dude is probably only saving like a few pence on every electricity bill.

Exactly, thats why I'm trying to think of other reasons why they wouldnt want us to have wifi.

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[ResonKinetic]

Exactly, thats why I'm trying to think of other reasons why they wouldnt want us to have wifi.

I totally think he wants to spy on your activity.

[Jubel]

I totally think he wants to spy on your activity.

"What is a granny transmission and why do they keep searching for them?"

[Headcrab Zombie]

That dude is probably only saving like a few pence on every electricity bill.

This, seriously wtf lol
Also, wouldn't he make you pay the electric bill?

[Bisjac]

do you guys have a cable thing? she dosnt even have to know you have wifi. none of her business.
if not then she prob is one of those last century starfishs who dosnt want a hole in her wall for cable.

get dsl and it's wifi then. forget what she thinks. thats not something she can decide.


also wtf at 2 pages of idiots not being the least bit helpful in any way

[Lord Furdle]

"What is a granny transmission and why do they keep searching for them?"

lold

Also, wouldn't he make you pay the electric bill?

Its not a he/she, its a company that owns a whole estate of student houses. gas/electricity are included in my £560/m rent.

do you guys have a cable thing? she dosnt even have to know you have wifi. none of her business.
if not then she prob is one of those last century starfishs who dosnt want a hole in her wall for cable.
get dsl and it's wifi then. forget what she thinks. thats not something she can decide.
also wtf at 2 pages of idiots not being the least bit helpful in any way

We're going to hide the wifi from them, dont worry :)

[ResonKinetic]

also wtf at 2 pages of idiots not being the least bit helpful in any way

there's not really anything to be helpful about.

furdle's already stated he's got a solution to the situation but he's just wondering why and looking for reasons.

Which I think you'll find that I've been supplying.

jerk

[Bisjac]

plugging a router into an ethernet cable that is supplied to you is not the same thing as bridging from a modem.
you will be gimped speed for doing so, like a hub.

because its more likely that ethernet cable is already coming from one.

[Headcrab Zombie]

you will be gimped speed

Your signal already goes through several routers to go from the origin, to your ISP, to you. Each router hop only adds a couple milliseconds of latency

like a hub.

Hubs don't do any processing of packets like a router or switch does, they just blindly pass the signal to all other ports connected, so they really don't add any latency

because its more likely that ethernet cable is already coming from one.

Of course, but if he wants internet access on more than one device there's not much else he can do.
He can either buy a wireless router, or an independant router/switch + a WAP

[Bacon Pancakes]

hes trying to protect us

this

[Bisjac]

Of course, but if he wants internet access on more than one device there's not much else he can do.

yes there is. he can get his own home cable or dsl service and have his own 1 router.
when you stack home routers on home routers, you lose speed by half each time. this is MUCH different then:

Your signal already goes through several routers to go from the origin, to your ISP, to you.

[Superbro11]

what  a richard.
he is trying to protect the world with this evil wifi! you should be thanking him u litt stuff

[Headcrab Zombie]

yes there is. he can get his own home cable or dsl service and have his own 1 router.

But then he has to pay for the internet, whereas I'm assuming his current internet is included with rent. Why would he do that?

when you stack home routers on home routers, you lose speed by half each time

lolwut
No you don't
I've used two routers myself before. It was a bit more configuration that adding a switch instead, but both throughput and latency had no measurable decrease
Even if it were true, I said he could use a switch instead of a router. I'm doing this myself RIGHT NOW, it's a very common practice when you have more wired devices than your router has ports for, and again, I have no measurable decrease in throughput or latency

[Lord Furdle]

So what do you guys suggest we do? Because at the moment we just have our own wifi network. We want wireless internet across our house.
Since the person who bought it is a theatre student, and everyone in my house is doing theatre/sports/psychology, I guess I'm in charge of making sure everything technical works.
Its gonna be like "FURDLE FIX MY COMPUTER PLS" all year.

Should I get one of those signal boosters since the wifi isnt going to be too great?

[ResonKinetic]

yeah buy a booster