Unsecure Wifi

suzyc27

Okay, I don’t know if anyone can help me with this. I recently rented some co-working office space based on the premise that it had secure WiFi, which was stated. When I turned up on the first day, which was yesterday, I discovered that it’s  not secure, there was no padlock symbol against the WiFi sign in, and it actually states that it’s unsecure, so much so that my work laptop wouldn’t even let me connect to it. I was shown an email saying that it is secure, but their system is saying otherwise. I was shown a way that I could possibly connect, which was by turning off the use of random hardware addresses for the network - which I think would enable the laptop to connect to the unsecure network. However, I cannot make those changes, nor would I want to, as my IT department are the only ones that can do this.

Where on earth do I stand with this issue? Sorry the post is so long.

Aylesbury_Duck

What outcome do you want?

JJ_Egan

Business to business not consumer .

Surely as a business your IT department would be more help .

bris

How can it be secure if it's a shared wifi, all the people sharing the space will have access. 

You can however secure your connection to it. You just need to know how, which you clearly don't so get an IT expert to set it up for you.

suzyc27

Thank you for your comments, it’s just that they are selling the service as secure WiFi, which it blatantly isn’t. If they had just said it was open access and not secure, totally get that, but they didn’t.

Ectophile

bris said:

How can it be secure if it's a shared wifi, all the people sharing the space will have access. 

By encrypting it, and then give the password to the people using the office.

TadleyBaggie

You could always use a VPN if you are unhappy with the local WiFi security.

Aylesbury_Duck

suzyc27 said:

Thank you for your comments, it’s just that they are selling the service as secure WiFi, which it blatantly isn’t. If they had just said it was open access and not secure, totally get that, but they didn’t.

So what outcome are you looking for?

Tokmon

Ectophile said:

bris said:

How can it be secure if it's a shared wifi, all the people sharing the space will have access. 

By encrypting it, and then give the password to the people using the office.

But how does that make it "secure"? 

The OP said this is "co-working office space" so they will still be strangers working there who would have access. 

Ectophile

Tokmon said:

Ectophile said:

bris said:

How can it be secure if it's a shared wifi, all the people sharing the space will have access. 

By encrypting it, and then give the password to the people using the office.

But how does that make it "secure"? 

The OP said this is "co-working office space" so they will still be strangers working there who would have access. 

Because that's what secure WiFi is. Secure doesn't mean you get your own personal WiFi that nobody else knows about.

suzyc27

Ectophile said:

Tokmon said:

Ectophile said:

bris said:

How can it be secure if it's a shared wifi, all the people sharing the space will have access. 

By encrypting it, and then give the password to the people using the office.

But how does that make it "secure"? 

The OP said this is "co-working office space" so they will still be strangers working there who would have access. 

Because that's what secure WiFi is. Secure doesn't mean you get your own personal WiFi that nobody else knows about.

I didn’t even have to in any kind of password, it really was just open access....I just don’t understand how they can market and sell it as secure.