Coming into the conversation late (as always these days) but... Russell Senior wrote: >>>>>> "Don" == Don Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Don> PTP has a sizable stash of WGTs. i still use a PTP node every day > Don> (Urban Grind NW), and I am convinced the splash pages cause more > Don> trouble than they're worth. the essid of www.personaltelco.net is > Don> a great way to get branding/awareness. noone reads the EULA and > Don> its legal standing is dubious. I suggest nucabs be replaced with > Don> WGTs with no captive portal. Remote debugging and usage tracking > Don> can be done with ssh and iptables. It costs $0 to implement. > > I am not completely against using WGTs, though: a) they aren't > replacable; and b) they'd be kind of nice to use in new residential > node deployments, like Pete Forsyth's and PixelFace.
Why not a hybrid solution? Go to the Lucky Lab (for instance) and tell them that we need to replace a piece of hardware in their setup. Tell them they have two options: a) WGT. Free to them, but no splash page and therefore no branding, etc. b) Alix thingie. 30 bucks to them (or some nominal percentage of PTP's costs to bring down that $5000 number) but then they can have splashy goodness. Maybe this way we'd end up using 10 WGTs and 20 Alix things, and each of the 20 would be subsidized slightly. The end result making the whole shebang more tractable financially. On the member-donation front, I've got 20 bucks right now to support the project provided I get to throw a replaced NuCab off a bridge or something next time I'm in town. Keep up the good work, -- Caleb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
