Here's a situation. What if you run a business where
you have groups of people come in and they need internet
access?
What are the best practices to prevent unathorized
use. Do you give clients a key or hide the SSID and then give it to them
when they arrive?
I've heard nightmares of having open access points with
port sweeps and scans. What do you do?
Thanks
From:
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Rick Dobbs
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SOCALWUG] Re: Network Your Backyard
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. Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 1:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SOCALWUG] Re: Network Your Backyard
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:
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...
- Resell or redistribute the Service to any third party via any means including but not limited to wireless technology.
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: [email protected]
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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