I'm not sure really... In terms of the community that is starting based around the port hills antenna, I get the impression that it is simply a WLAN - ie access only to what people on the net want to share from their PC's harddrives - so there is no bandwidth that needs to be paid for really. However, I don't see why somebody on the WLAN network couldn't expose their box as a gateway & allow their internet connection to be shared. This brings up an interesting point - lets say I have joined this network & have some broadband connection I am willing to share, here are a few questions to the list: - Can I share it? I'll assume yes, because my PC is just acting as a gateway/router. - Can I track internet usage from the WLAN? - Can I restrict the volume from the WLAN going through the net? - Is there linux software that essentially allows me to act as an ISP? - Is this legal (ISP terms & conditions I guess)
Anyhow, if I can get a connection to this WLAN from my place, I will be trying to do all of the above. Comments/suggestions? Cheers Brad > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 22 March 2003 3:20 a.m. > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Wireless networks > > > How does the wireless net thing work? Do people just let > others have free > bandwidth? can anybody connect? > > -Paul >
