Subj : SignalTech wifi booster - Sounds suspicious
To : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Aug 24 2021 02:57 am
Re: SignalTech wifi booster - Sounds suspicious
By: Nightfox to All on Mon Aug 23 2021 03:02 pm
> While looking at the weather report for my area on weather.com, I saw an ad
> this SignalTech wifi booster with some text saying internet providers don't
> want you buying one. I was curious if it was some kind of special device or
> not, so I decided to click on the link. This is from SignalTech's web site:
>
>
https://signaltechbooster.com/info-21.php
>
> Basically what it says is that internet providers throttle your router to ma
> your internet speed become slower over time so you'll upgrade your internet
> package. This already sounded suspicious to me, because I haven't had this
> happen to me (though I tend to buy my own router and use 3rd-party router
> firmware, such as DD-WRT or Tomato). I suppose it could theoretically happe
> with an ISP-provided router, but even then it seems sketchy and I haven't he
> of this happening to other people.
>
> Next, it says that this SignalTech wifi booster "overrides what the internet
> provider does with your router and boosts your internet to every corner of y
> house". This sounds highly suspicious to me. If the internet provider is
> throttling your router speeds, I don't really see how a wifi device like thi
> would be able to override what the ISP is doing to your router. Also, this
> a wifi repeater; what about ethernet speed?
>
> And to top it off, that page has a section that says "How does this device
> work?" and it explains what bandwidth is, but it doesn't actually explain ho
> this device supposedly overrides any bandwidth throttling from your internet
> provider.
>
> It all sounds bogus..
>
> Nightfox
>
It reminds me of those devices that use faraway infrared rays to clean your
laundry, which they used to advertise in Mexican TV Shops.
If the ISP wanted to throttle your Internet connection for any reason, they
would do it on their end and not from the router you have in your premises.
ISPs are fully aware power users deploy their own routers.
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