[Cu-wireless] 2wire's irresponsible new product

[Illustrious niteshad]

It certainly does sound like this is bad news for everybody's shared bandwidth.  That being the case, what should we do about it?  Obviously 2wire has already made n (where n is very large) of these APs.  Would contacting the company and pointing out the ill-effects of their product on everybody's wireless networks (i.e. their own customers) do any good?

----- Original Message -----
From: David Young <dyoung at pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:25:06 -0600
To: wireless at ucimc.org
Subject: [Cu-wireless] 2wire's irresponsible new product

> More power means ... less bandwidth for everybody! These 400mW home APs
> could be bad news.
> 
> Dave
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> -----
> 
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> To: <wireless at lists.bawug.org>
> From: John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com>
> Subject: [BAWUG] 2Wire and SBC interference?
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:08:05 -0600
> 
> 
> I'm a mini-WISP in a small town in the Midwest.
> I was tracking down some interference on a Cisco AP-352
> today.  It's incapacitated by deauthentication messages:
> the log shows "2004/01/19 09:37:10 (Info): Deauthentication 
> from 00:d0:9e:f8:8f:b1, reason "Not Associated", many 
> per second.  That mystery MAC isn't any of mine.  
> 
> The wired side is flooded with LLC packets from the AP with 
> a destination of 01:40:96:ff:ff:00.  The AP is dropping 
> 30% of ping packets sent to it.
> 
> So I did a little wardriving to try to find the mystery MAC.
> Lookup says it's a 2Wire device.  Sure enough, I find not
> one but four APs in the neighborhood "2WIRE268" "2WIRE837" 
> "2WIRE870" "2WIRE877", all on default channel 6, where
> none were a few months ago.
> 
> Well, here's why they're showing up:
> http://www.2wire.com/pr/pr12022003.html
> 
> SBC recently rolled out DSL in my town.  They offered a 
> rebate or a wireless AP / firewall.  That press release above
> says these home APs are up to 400 mW each, and that one
> of 2Wire's exclusive distributors is SBC.  
> 
> It's their right to sell DSL, of course, but now they're
> also polluting the 2.4 Ghz spectrum.  These home APs were
> lighting up the neighborhood with more power than any
> of the WISPs in town.
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out what to reset on the AP-352
> to turn off this LLC problem.  I tried adding that MAC to
> the denied list, but it only made it worse as the AP slowed
> down even more, it seemed.
> 
> - John
> 
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