Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?
David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 10:05:19 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
> > It's possible that we're exceptional.
>
> Presumably you checked that you share the transformer? We get our
> power from the poles on the other side of the street. Our neighbours
> on each side get theirs from the rear easement which makes a 3-blocks
> length journey for any signal.
My next-door neighbor is fed from the next pole along on the
same overhead line.
> > On the other hand, I leave my wifi open and unsecured, because
> > it's attached to the outside of my security zones, not the
> > inside.
>
> I don't quite understand. What do you use the wifi for? And what
> runs inside your security zones?
The wifi is for mobile devices, of course. Phones, tablets,
laptops. If they want to talk to the house servers, they need
to use SSH or a VPN to get in, or have the same minimal access
that the rest of the Internet has to defined services.
-dsr-
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