grab a router and install OpenWRT onto it, and turn it into a wireless bridge. Use the router to connect to the office WiFi, and have a wired connection to your laptop
A setup like that would trip our IT security. I actually killed all the phones on our floor by doing a simple packet route they didn’t recognize, they have the routers set to kill all the PoE and block all data when anything they don’t recognize comes through.
You have a network for employee’s personal phones and devices, correct? That still leads to the Internet, correct?
I mean, the entire point of such a network is to keep outside devices off of internal networks that have sensitive data. And because the insides of large buildings can be absolutely sucky at receiving LTE/5G data connections, employees can and will do anything needed to ensure they still have connectivity on personal devices. So just connect the router/bridge to that network, and Teams will be appropriately sanitized and think you are still at home.
Teams will be appropriately sanitized and think you are still at home.
I wouldn’t count on that in our IT environment. The one constant there is: change. Whatever works one week, they’ll screw around with it and make it different the week after that… I WFH and mostly on my own gear because getting things done with their supplied laptop is 50% fighting their ever-shifting “support.”
A setup like that would trip our IT security. I actually killed all the phones on our floor by doing a simple packet route they didn’t recognize, they have the routers set to kill all the PoE and block all data when anything they don’t recognize comes through.
You have a network for employee’s personal phones and devices, correct? That still leads to the Internet, correct?
I mean, the entire point of such a network is to keep outside devices off of internal networks that have sensitive data. And because the insides of large buildings can be absolutely sucky at receiving LTE/5G data connections, employees can and will do anything needed to ensure they still have connectivity on personal devices. So just connect the router/bridge to that network, and Teams will be appropriately sanitized and think you are still at home.
I wouldn’t count on that in our IT environment. The one constant there is: change. Whatever works one week, they’ll screw around with it and make it different the week after that… I WFH and mostly on my own gear because getting things done with their supplied laptop is 50% fighting their ever-shifting “support.”