This should be reason enough for a close look at TOS and pricing mechanisms. If your clients have to pay more for usage, then they will think twice before buying into this.
Fry's Electronics usually has a $20 wireless router on sale so this is not the only possible threat. The $20 wireless router they sell usually freezes after a couple of hours of heavy usage though... John >-----Original Message----- >From: Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 08:08 AM >To: wireless@wispa.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [WISPA] Fw: Wireless In Washington > >For those that still think the all you can eat option is a good one :-) > >Marlon >(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales >(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services >42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp! >64.146.146.12 (net meeting) >www.odessaoffice.com/wireless >www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >This guy needs to get a job from FON. >http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200989,00.html > > > > Wi-Fi Company to Sell Routers for Five Dollars > > Monday, June 26, 2006 > > > > > STORIES > > . > > Reports of Death of Dial-Up Internet Greatly Exaggerated > > > > LONDON - FON, a Spanish start-up on an ambitious crusade to turn home > Wi-Fi connections into wireless "hotspots" for nearby users, is set to unveil > on Monday a plan to hand out 1 million wireless routers for just $5 apiece. > > FON, which aims to create a network of home users and small businesses > to resell wireless access to passersby, said on Sunday it will subsidize $60 > Cisco (CSCO) Linksys or Buffalo routers for $5 in the United States or 5 > euros in Europe. > > Routers are small boxes users connect to cable or telephone Internet > connections to broadcast wireless signals to nearby devices, inside a home, > business or surrounding neighborhood. > > Juergen Urbanski, North American general manager, said FON, which in > February raised $21.7 million from backers, including the founders of Google > (GOOG) and Skype, is looking to turn the brand-name equipment into what it > calls "social routers." > > The goal of the Madrid-based company is to build block-by-block networks > of shared wireless connections around the globe, turning local Wi-Fi users > into an army of "foneros" - its term for people who share wireless access. > > As the company's name implies, FON aims to provide wireless Internet > access not just to computer users but also for mobile phones and the latest > portable gaming devices as they roam. > > (Story continues below) > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >From: Kevin Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 11:05 AM >To: 'Mike Hall' >Subject: FW: Wireless In Washington > > > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >From: Marlon K. Schafer (509) 982-2181 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:53 AM >To: webmaster; omimo >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Wireless In Washington > > > >Hiya, > >Comments below. > >Marlon >(509) 982-2181 Equipment sales >(408) 907-6910 (Vonage) Consulting services >42846865 (icq) And I run my own wisp! >64.146.146.12 (net meeting) >www.odessaoffice.com/wireless >www.odessaoffice.com/marlon/cam > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: webmaster >To: omimo >Cc: Marlon Schafer >Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:27 PM >Subject: Re: Wireless In Washington > > >I have forwarded your inquiry for reply. > >Mary >----- Original Message ----- >From: omimo >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:49 PM >Subject: Wireless In Washington > > >Hi, > >I was really encouraged by your experiences starting up a wireless network >service. > > > >mks: Thanks! > > > >I'm about to move to a house near Uniontown WA. > > > >mks: Cool. You'll like it there. > >I am sad because I have to give up my connection that I 'borrow' from my >landlord thanks to a small repeater sitting on his kitchen windowsill and a >converted steel salad bowl with my D-Link USB unit attached. Range: 150 yards >with 56Mbps to his home network. > > > >mks: Grin > >I was so proud of that hack. > > > >mks: Big grin! > >My new place is about 8km from one of the local providers antenna's and 13km >from anther one. The provider is First Step Internet out of Moscow, ID. > > > >mks: Coolness. I know those guys. Good people. Great network. I've cc'd >Kevin from fsr for you. > >They have a 1.5 mbps connection for $35/month but want me to use their Trango >5.3/5.8GHz antenna and a modem of their own spec that they want to sell to me. >In addition to a $600 setup fee. > > > >mks: Hmmmm. You sure that's the going deal for a residential connection? >Sounds like a business one to me. Still pretty cheap though, have you ever >paid for a connection to the telco? My last t-1 had a $500 install fee plus >$500 per month and a 36 month contract. I just upgraded to a 10 meg fiber >link that whacked my $5000.00 in install fees! sigh > >There has got to be a way I can make this happen (and share it with my >neighbors hopefully) in spite of the tech support spiel "we usually don't >allow personal equipment to connect due to variable quality of consumer >products". > > > >mks: That's almost exactly the same language we use. We'd also not let you >"share" with your neighbors. That's really not sharing, it's stealing. When >you buy a connection it's for YOUR use not everyone elses. We pay for your >access based on what you do, if you do too far above the average (as you would >when "sharing") we lose money on the account. Lose too much money and no one >will get service. > > > >mks: The way that *we* manage that is to charge a per bit fee. You get a gig >of data with your monthly account. After that you have to buy the extra gigs >you use. And we're very expensive for overages. We do not allow you to run >servers either. Even on the business accounts, if you want to host email, put >it on our servers, then it's our fault when it gets hacked into and generates >an extra couple of thousand in upstream bills on month! > > > >The house has a couple of new, and currently redundant, dishnetwork dishes >with three feedhorns, couldn't I use these somehow? > > > >mks: Nope. I guess you *could* but it would be more trouble than it would be >worth. In the end it would cost you more money than doing it right. > > > >I sure hope you have some advice. > > > >mks: I sure hope you liked my advice! > >laters, > >marlon > > > >Thanks. > -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
