Enrique LaRoche said: > > It does not seem to prohibit. > Bridging from one building on your premise to another using wireless. > Nor bridging from one of your houses to another of your houses at a > different location. Say Home to office via wireless line of sight.
I agree, it does not. > It does not seem to prohibit a wireless installation by connecting a > wireless router. I agree, it does not. > If someone driving by were to stop and login to the internet this would > not seem to be an intentional redistribution. If your access point were unprotected, this would be redistribution. > The First time you advertised your hotspot , then it would seem to > violate the agreement. This is also redistribution. > Looks like the only way these connections will mesh is via a truly > underground and free approach. You can mesh the connections, but you cannot grant the mesh access to the internet through your Time Warner account. > For Example I have been in dense SanFrancisco neighborhoods and logged > into several waps with no commercial intent. > Were any of thoose users in violation? > I doubt it. Yes, they were. You have 2 options: a) Protect your network sufficiently so that you can claim anyone getting past your protections "hacked" you. (I.e., enable WEP at its highest bitwidth, which we know can be reasonably easily bypassed but we can fall back on the claims of the manufacturer.)b) Allow access to your internal LAN, but require that anyone trying to access the outside world pass through a password protected (non-caching) proxy server. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Balon > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BAWUG] RE: Time Warner Nasty-gram > > > > Anyone sharing bandwidth with a Road Runner connection > is in direct violation of the terms of service. Here > it is, right from the fine print. > > 5. Subscriber Conduct. > > (a) The ISP Service as offered and provided under this > Agreement is a residential service offered for > personal, non-commercial use only. Subscriber will not > resell or redistribute (whether for a fee or > otherwise) the ISP Service, or any portion thereof, or > otherwise charge others to use the ISP Service, or any > portion thereof. Subscriber agrees not to use the ISP > Service for operation as an internet service provider, > for the hosting of websites (other than as expressly > permitted as part of the ISP Service) or for any > enterprise purpose whether or not the enterprise is > directed toward making a profit. > > 6. Review and Enforcement. > > ... > > (b) Operator may suspend Subscriber's account, or > cancel Subscriber's account without prior notification > if Operator determines in its discretion that > Subscriber has violated this Agreement or any of the > Terms of Use. Operator reserves the right to suspend > or terminate the ISP Service to Subscriber for a > single violation of this Agreement or the Terms of > Use. If Subscriber's account is suspended, Subscriber > will not be charged for that period of time. If > Subscriber's account is canceled, Subscriber will be > refunded any pre-paid fees minus any amounts due > Operator. > ------ > Not only that, but busineses class service in my area > specifically forbids any sharing or resale. This > should come as no surprise, after all they are in > business to make money folks. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
