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Amazon Sidewalk will soon share your Internet with your neighbors
rdl:
Just so you know, Amazon Sidewalk will soon share your Internet with your neighbors. If you use any Amazon devices you are opted in by default.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/amazon-devices-will-soon-automatically-share-your-internet-with-neighbors/
https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/b?node=21328123011
Ed.Kloonk:
Make it connect to the neighbors' internet. Fixt.
themadhippy:
BT in the uk were doing this some time ago under the name of openzone.
Stray Electron:
I read the article but this makes no sense what so ever. First Amazon says that they're not charging for it. If true then why are they doing it? No, I don't believe that a company like Amazon ever does something that not going to directly benefit them!
Second, they claim that this will increase my range. Really? Exactly how? Or has Amazon been deliberately crippling my service and now intends to restore it to it's full potential?
Third, I understand the concept of allowing my neighbors to use my router when they have a service outage, but how does accessing my security cameras, my Ring door bell and my Alexa in any way useful to them?
Until I learn a lot more about this, the answer is not only "No", it's "OH HELL NO!"
Ranayna:
I have not looked up the details, but from a wireless technical standpoint, i would imagine, that all your Amazon wireless enabled devices will start broadcasting a signal themselves, instead of just being clients.
At the same time, any wireless Amazon Device can connect to this network, and will do so if another signal is stonger than you router. This can be, and very likely is, separated from non-Amazon devices on your network. Everything else would indeed be a security nightmare, and could not be hidden for long, resulting in a PR desaster.
So this could increase the coverage for your Amazon devices, because now they could connect to the Alexa your neighbor has sitting in the window near your garden, where your own wifi does not properly reach.
In theory, this sounds neat, but even in lighty populated areas with few Amazon Devices, you would get a lot of channel overlapping, potentially killing the performance of your WiFi.
Apparently this will be limited to low bandwith connections, but i would still expect a lot of "Air pollution" in the ISM bands.
Sound similar to how the new Apple Tags work. Any iPhone with "Find my location" enabled will be used to locate these tags. No matter to whom they belong.
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