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two wireless APs and a VLAN is what we
do, i use the linksys RV082 and RV016 routers connected to the linksys WRT54G
and WAP54G, the RV's have the VLAN options,
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Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 3:44
PM
Subject: [SOCALWUG] Re: Network Your
Backyard
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:
[email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
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.
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?
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
________________________________
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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