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Yeah, to be clear, there were no wires available (I asked, and then begged). Thankfully I was in the middle of buying my house when they made this change and I just dragged my feet until I moved out and never turned in my old cable modem so that I could continue on as I had before for the last month or so I was there. The device limit was so stupid and for all I know they raised/removed it after I left. Even at 20 devices, it wouldn't have been enough [0]. Had I stayed I probably would have needed to do a wifi->wifi or wifi->ethernet bridge so I could get around the limit and provide internet to the non-wifi devices. Also, just to provide some more info, this was in 2019 so it wasn't like it was the dawn of WiFi and people didn't have lot of wifi devices. > The "X devices max" is so dumb, anyway. Shouldn't it be the total throughput that matters? It should be, but that would require some level of critical thinking and the owners of that apartment building had long-since proven they possessed neither the ability or will to think about anything they did, WiFi or otherwise. [0] Between my partner and I we had: 2x phones, 2x tablets, 2x laptops, 2x Smart watch, 3x servers (not even wifi-supported), smart home hub, smart scale, Xbox, 2x Apple TV, 3x Echo Dots, 3-4 smart plug wifi devices, and then I had a work laptop and a few work testing devices (phones/tablets) so I blew past the ( raised for me) 20-device limit without even trying. And I'm probably forgetting a few devices. |