[SOCALWUG] Re: Network Your Backyard

[Rick Dobbs]

It's definitely a grey area.  I talked with a VP at Cox a little bit back about this.  It's mostly unenforceable and you can easily claim ignorance if the system is open and being used by others.  In the rare occassion that they enforce this, it has only been used on people who are using a significant amount of bandwidth over long periods of time.  If you have their 10mbit package (I think that's it) and you're regularly pegging it out for most of the day, you're going to run in to a problem and they'll use that rule to enforce it.

Obviously, it's a workaround.  If you're the type of person that's concerned about the letter of the law, then the bottom line would be not to do it.  But at the same time, you could get away with it.

--Rick

On 5/11/06, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I see that my ISP (Cox Cable) has this in my AUP:

• Resell or redistribute the Service to any third party via any means including but not limited to wireless technology.

The "redistribute" can be taken to mean open WiFi on my part, I would think.  Interesting to note that I can't just offer it to anyone even though I pay for it...

It seems that the issue of keeping the bandwidth "un-redistributed" falls to the consumer and might not be that easy or desireable to enforce.

You share your Internet connection to those places and don't charge?  I don't think my Cox would allow that, do you?

On 5/11/06, Frank Keeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Read your ISP's AUP, mine allows sharing as long as I don't charge a fee.

I share my DSL with two apartments on a mountain 5 miles away and another
apartment 10 miles away.




Frank Keeney
Pasadena Networks, LLC
Antennas, Cables and Equipment:
http://www.wlanparts.com




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        On Behalf Of Richard
        Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:28 PM
        To: SOCALWUG@googlegroups.com
        Subject: [SOCALWUG] Re: Network Your Backyard


        If I decide to run an "open WiFi port" on my home LAN and let anyone
access my connection to the Internet, isn't that theft in the eyes of my
ISP?

        So don't use a solar-powered Wi-Fi extender unless you take steps to
make it PRIVATE!?

        (another angle for at least using WEP if not MAC filtering...)

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