Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
Personally, had I the time and inclination, I'd simply set up a
captive portal for free access to my home's connection, but throttle
it down to a small (but useable) fraction of my available bandwidth.
Enough to surf the web, check email, but not enough to make file
sharing or large downloads practical. Then again, I'd likely capture
the MAC address and do a full nmap-scan of the host before allowing it
online, too.
I like the idea of setting up this "captive portal" of which you speak.
I like the idea of giving out the equivalent of 26K baud for free to any
of my neighbors to share amongst themselves. (Hey, it's free, why would
they complain?)
But why capture the MAC address? For what purpose?
And why "do a full nmap-scan of the host before allowing it online"?
What would that do for you?
(I know little about such things.)
Or you can come into my house, and ask permission, and I'll just as
likely give you full access.
I don't know how receptive you would be if I just "come into [your]
house", but sure. What's your address? ;)
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