My brother's new high rise apartment doesn't allow individual internet services

pluc

Amazingly, those are advertised as "included amenities", as if they were a good thing. I'm sure a large number of people are fine with the idea of a managed internet - or they just don't understand.

nijave

Rev sharing agreements can be quite lucrative for the building owner. Here's an old example https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/432/topics/554933-cable...

spottedmarley

Get a mobile hotspot. I've been using one (Verizon) practically as my only internet provider for a while now. 5G up and down speeds are totally acceptable for everything I do. And there's nothing an apartment complex can do about it. You can also share your phone's internet with other devices. Obviously the real answer is to not live there! But if you must, it's not an internet death sentence.

hurricanepootis

Honestly, what's stopping a high rise building from doing an internal GPON/XGS-PON distribution to all the buildings inside?

Wowfunhappy

Do they block individual wired connections too, or only Wi-Fi? Asking residents to refrain from setting up their own wireless access points actually seems like it could be reasonable? It might lead to less congestion and better performance for everyone. I'm reminded of my college dorm. Every room had an ethernet jack, and there was a communal Wi-Fi network, but students were asked to not create their own Wi-Fi hotspots.

4d4m

Starlink or 5g att/tmobile are a likely option

contingencies

Had this in China years ago. The solution was we dressed up a worker from my fiber optic provider in a borrowed cable provider uniform to haul the cable. It took months to arrange, but I was pretty amused when it worked!