>>Now I have to go apologize to my wife...
?????
DOS attack?<<
TMD attack — Too Many Devices. I am in Mexico and although we have household Internet it caps at 5 devices. So, when FR freaked, it looked just like when the dreaded Sixth Device kicks in.
Resulting in “Honey, you know we can’t use the tablet without shutting down something!” and the natural follow-up “what are you talking about?”
You can imagine the hilarity that ensued.
Note: I tried hooking up my own router to get more slots. Nope, somehow their modem/router was too smart for that.
You can’t use an wifi connected iPhone as a hotspot?
Wow, so is this five identifiable MAC addresses (read: not, Apple) of any sort? Is this Carlos Slim Pickens idea of service?
There surely is a way around this. Local host VPN inside a virtual box?