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  • Sharing Internet Among Neighbors: Security and Privacy Risks

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.

    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.

      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.

          Then you could have your own network.

          2 months later

          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.

            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.