Campground WIFI or prepaid MIFI
We're thinking of extending our winter stay next Jan/Feb by working from the camper but that means I'd need reliable internet (office type work not video streaming). To complicate matters we haven't...
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docj wrote:Yeah. We've been doing online banking for years on whatever wifi is available confident that our session encryption is adequate against all but very heavily funded organizations.wintersun wrote:
Public WiFi is public. I use it where we cannot get a strong enough signal for the mifi. Even then we do not use it for email or any type of private transaction.
This is a common misconception that is often repeated on this and other forums. If you are connected to a website using HTPS encryption, which is all bank and credit card companies as well as Gmail and lots of others, then the security of your connection is handled by the 128-bit encryption that is embedded in HTTPS protocol and NOT in your connection to the campground's wifi.
