It's tempting to go the other way -- set up a public wireless access
point (but secure all personal data via ssh/https/ipsec) with some sort
of bandwidth-throttling or priority mechanism that allocates bandwidth
that I am not currently using to the public service.
We have warring interests -- the gift-culture nature, and the security
sensibilities, and the desire for our gift-giving to not affect us in
any way...
I actually leave mine wide open, and have done for years.
Since I don't pay $/MB, and Cox gives me about 4Mbps (now, 2.5Mbps
previously), I don't worry too much about b/w usage.
But when I setup my brothers in Australia over Xmas, I went the whole
hog, becoz it was for his film company, and
a) they pay $/MB
b) they don't want anyone stealing their productions off their computers
And here's a tidbit of info for anyone wandering around the Sorrento
Valley area. A certain companies WAP's are open to anyone to use to
access the Internet. Employees have to use VPN s/w to get inside, but
the WAP's will allow anyone to use the facilities. I think that's a
rather nice approach to take....
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