On Mon, 2 May 2005, dopry wrote: > It would be interesting to see the existing small WISPs offer access > like larger ISPs... If several small WISP's were to band together, setup > a pair of proxy radius servers you might have an interesting model... > Adjust access pricing according to the coverage of each member or > something similar... not well though out, just a dust bunny in the back > of my brain. That's been done, many times. See boingo, grid and many similar services
none of them really caught up... > If something like this were free access... individuals would at least be > able to setup a decent WPA infrastructure without needing their own > radius servers. I even think pebble could be modified to setup an > instant member node without many problems, may do something similar to > wiana and allow node managers to setup permission roles based on realms. None of them were free. On other hand, if you are planning to provide access for free, what's the point of joining something like boingo? Or I misunderstood? -alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
