The original post: /r/homenetworking by /u/pjones431 on 2024-05-12 00:07:14.

I just moved into a new apartment building and they have aerwave. My understanding is that each unit has its own username and password to the wifi. The weird thing is that the aerwave tech texted me the username and password. I assumed that I would be able to reset the password but he told me there’s not a way to do that. My next question was “sooo every admin at aerwave has the password to my local wifi?”. He said yes.

Question #1 - Is this a legit security and privacy concern ? The whole thing felt weird to me. I know very little about network security but this made me wonder whether some random guy with my wifi password could just show up in the parking lot outside of my apartment and start connecting to my devices.

My level of discomfort led to me just buy a router to add an extra layer of security, which I have plugged right into the Ethernet port in the wall. I set my own password for it and figured this would give an extra layer of security for all of my devices connected to the wifi.

Question #2 - was this the right move? Is this actually more secure now? I have no idea what is “upstream” from the Ethernet port and if anyone could still just be monitoring all of my traffic.

TLDR - I live in an apartment and learned that Aerwave employees can see my wifi password and I don’t want that. There’s no way to change that password, so I want to add an extra layer of security to my network and create my own password to my local wifi.