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Very impressive. This made me chuckle:

> I asked campus IT to whitelist the MAC address

Back at my uni this would have been a multi week endeavour with a number of forms and likely a denial. This was 15 years ago so hopefully things have changed there now.



It's actually because our WiFi portal doesn't allow printers, game consoles, etc without browsers to connect, we have to manually add it. Though there is a portal to add it ourselves without IT, I am at the max 5 devices through there so I have to ask for overrides :)




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