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Re: Not Sprint, no sir! said by wifi4milez:Actually no! Out of the box the device will work with any Sprint device that comes into its range. You need to specifically limit it to certain phones, otherwise its basically wide open! Lovely. So, just like wireless access point, wide-open, not secure by default is now going to be affecting cell phones. You would think that device security, especially on a pay service, would be a high priority. Sprint better make the instructions and warnings about the security settings prominent and clear for the average customer.
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| said by NetAdmin1:said by wifi4milez:Actually no! Out of the box the device will work with any Sprint device that comes into its range. You need to specifically limit it to certain phones, otherwise its basically wide open! Lovely. So, just like wireless access point, wide-open, not secure by default is now going to be affecting cell phones. You would think that device security, especially on a pay service, would be a high priority. Sprint better make the instructions and warnings about the security settings prominent and clear for the average customer. Any minutes used while on the device, by a stranger or not...would come out of the individual subscribers minutes and not the owner of the Airave device. The most the owner is losing is a bit of bandwidth...although if there connection is metered or they have caps...this could be a problem.
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| said by swintec:Any minutes used while on the device, by a stranger or not...would come out of the individual subscribers minutes and not the owner of the Airave device. The most the owner is losing is a bit of bandwidth...although if there connection is metered or they have caps...this could be a problem. Because the device only accepts a finite number of devices, I think it is three, if you are in a heavily populated area, like a city or suburb, and your femtocell is wide open, people in your area can conceivable connect to your device and prevent you from connecting. Think of it as an unintended DoS.
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