[CWN-Summit] Tmobile blocking outside connection

Stelios Valavanis stel at onshore.com
Mon Dec 20 01:30:19 CST 2004


manufacturers, particularly alcatel, have pitched me on product that does have 
some kind of blocking feature but i'm surprised you see the APs. because of 
unlicensed spectrum this is legal. then again it's probably legal to just 
spam the waves and kill their spot too.

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 03:30 pm, steve at neobio.org wrote:
> Forgive the ignorance, but has any of you heard of $tarbuck$, (sorry
> Seattlites, I'm into local roaster/cafes) Tmobile pay for use hotspots
> using some sort of interference or blocking preventing users from
> connecting to outside (ie "free") access points.
>
> I ask because recently I had a meeting at a $tarbuck$ in downtown Cleveland
> smack in the middle of Playhouse Square's Freelink WiFi hotzone that has
> been up for about a year.  I have used Freelink many times in the past at
> that Starbucks, but they have since put in the Tmobile AP.  This time,
> though I could see four of the six Freelink AP's along with the Tmobile AP,
> I could not get an IP address assigned.  This was true of my laptop and my
> PDA.
>
> Could Tmobile be doing something sinister here?  Have any of you come
> across similar stories in your cities?
>
> Steveg
> Tremont Wifi Neighborhood

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