Re: [BAWUG] Re: Legality, Timer Warner sharing

[Fred Weston]

Tom Balon wrote:

It's funny, perhaps it's because the local francise
is more lenient. My guess is that the Corp. policy
is "no share, no re-sell". It's great that your local
Time Warner service allows it. 

I went down this road and found that if I wanted to
use Time Warner for a wireless service, I needed to
switch to Timer Warner Telecomunications Service 
www.twtelcom.com which is there carrier class service.

BTW: Their fractional T1/T3 rates were very good.

Tom

--- Charlie Deckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

That is not the case in Austin TX, if you tell them
it is for a wireless
network they will allow it for an additional fee,
about 150 a month...We did
this at a hotspot downtown with no issues and
complete support from Road
Runner. I think the rules are different regionally.
Chaz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Balon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:47 PM
Subject: [BAWUG] Re: wireless digest, Vol 1 #443 -
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RoadRunner Business class has the same terms as
     

their
   

consumer class when it comes to sharing. You
     

cannot
   

share or re-sell the service under any
     

circumstances.
   

Unless your ISP has no problem with you giving
     

their
   

service away for free, the only way to do this
     

legally
   

would be to lease a line and go into business as
     

an
   

ISP.

Tom

Subject: Re: [BAWUG] legality

I'm not sure how Comcast does it, but Road Runner
     

(in
   

FL anyway)
prohibits all sharing, period.  Even if you're
     

paying
   

them $200 a month
for a beefy connection with bunches of IP
     

addresses.
   

I was surprised
to
discover this as well, but even more surprised
     

when I
   

called their
business sales office.  The guy I talked to was
     

very
   

aggravated that I
would want to do such a thing, and almost hung up
     

on
   

me!

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I really think the reason companies like Speakeasy and Megapath let you 
share the connection is because they realize that the person next door 
to you isn't going to buy service from them if they prohibit you from 
doing it. 

In other words, RR, SBC, and other big ISPs ("communists")  might lose 
customers because of WiFi sharing only because they're ubiquitous.  Joe 
Neighbor isn't going to think "Oh, Speakeasy!" when he decides he wants 
Internet at home, so Speakeasy really doesn't stand to lose him as a 
customer if he finds out he can get free WiFi because he would have 
signed up with some other  ISP anyway.

I guess when you look at it that way, it actually benefits Speakeasy.  
They prevent someone from signing up with the competetion and get name 
recognition through the hotspot,

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