Registration is not optional cosmetics
Many BE/NL/DE/FR residences bridge the jack to a captive portal: register student ID + MAC, wait for activation, then get a filtered VLAN. Unregistered devices may get DHCP but zero upstream — or a weekend ban after abuse detection.
dorm-ethernet-vs-wifi-earn-apps-europe-2026 compares jack vs Wi‑Fi stability; this page is the policy layer: registration, AUP, and landlord clauses.
Policy checklist before plugging in
An unregistered jack that “kinda works” until exam week is how students lose both earn and network access.
- Screenshot housing Wi‑Fi/ethernet AUP and any “no servers / no reselling” clause
- Complete MAC registration with the official client device — not a random USB dongle farm
- Ask once in writing if bandwidth-sharing apps are allowed (save the reply)
- Respect device quotas — multi-device stacks look like abuse — multi-device-household-scoreboard-earn-apps-2026
- Keep quiet hours — roommate-house-rules-earn-apps-2026 + quiet-hours-overnight-earn-scheduling-europe-2026
- Never bridge campus VPN + earn without split-tunnel truth — vpn-split-tunnel-vs-earn-app-bans-europe-2026
Landlord Wi‑Fi vs your own ISP
When the landlord’s SSID is the only path, their fair-use and MAC rules win — landlord-wifi-earn-apps-europe-2026. If your lease allows your own modem, prefer that line and keep dorm jacks for study traffic.
CGNAT on residence pools is common — do not buy “public IP unlock” kits — cgnat-vs-public-ip-earn-rates-europe-2026.
Tonight
Find the portal, register one device, read AUP once, then decide earn-on / earn-off for that network. Hub: /guides/bandwidth-safety/. Start: /en/start/.