Sharing Internet Among Neighbors: Security and Privacy Risks

Pixel8

Hi. Due to design errors in my urbanization, it is impossible for me to have wifi connection in my house. The best solution I found was to pay someone who lives nearby a part of his plan to share the internet through a signal extender located in my house. The person who lives next to my house did the same, that is, there are 3 families sharing the same internet plan, in my case and the other person's with an extender and an additional router each. Is there any risk in terms of security/privacy of doing this? And if yes, how could I counter it.

DeletedUser26

Pixel8 Best thing to do is have them set you up on the guest network with no data cap. That way your devices can’t see theirs and vice versa.

Rizzler

Pixel8 If you're on their LAN essentially then yes that is an issue. Use a VPN so nobody on the network can see what sites you visit. I'd buy a phone and pay for a Mobile Data plan and use it as a hotspot.

Onlyfun

Rizzler why would you buy a phone and not a cellular router?

Rizzler

Then you could have your own network.

Rizzler

Onlyfun Because its more secure. Portable APs are insecure.

Onlyfun

Rizzler i started a thread about this, and one of first replies had this link https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/11331995763467028i

Its 7 years old and has many comments very similar to yours
I find it interesting, and wondering does this coincidence mean that there was not to much reasons for the situation to shift? My knowledge of this topic is very limited, and i simply don't know how many things in it work and only trying to find answers.

I find the fact that a graphene pixel does not have any control of the traffic it's tethering, a headshot into it's usage as a main AP

Tunneling that traffic through a vpn is in a state of science fiction for over decade hence tethered traffic is served to isp and co. on a silver platter, no?

Feel free to respond in the thread i started

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/17386-what-sources-are-out-there-for-a-cellular-router-and-a-data-plan-for-it

not take this one off the rails.

user539

Buy a glinet open wrt router that can be used as a wifi extender. Set it up as guest network. And then add VPN to it.
Their price starts from 50e for the cheapest model.

Velocity9490

user539 I was about to suggest the same thing