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Re: Marriott wifi blocking


From: David Cantrell <david () cantrell org uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 12:24:17 +0100

On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:57:07PM -0700, Hugo Slabbert wrote:

But it's not a completely discrete network.  It is a subset of the 
existing network in the most common example of e.g. a WLAN + NAT device 
providing access to additional clients, or at least an adjacent network 
attached to the existing one.  Okay: theoretically a guest could spin up 
a hotspot and not attach it to the hotel network at all, but I'm 
assuming that's a pretty tiny edge case.

I don't think it is. It's common for phones to be able to share their
3G/4G/whatever wossnames with other devices over wifi. And these days
you don't even have to pay the telco extra.

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