[CWN-Summit] Students tout WiFi co-ops as alternative to municipal WiFi

[Stelios Valavanis]

what about meracki? how are they doing it?

On Thursday 07 February 2008 8:36:50 pm ben wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> A friend of mine who is a coffeeshop owner in St. Louis encountered this
> very scheme when he approached SBC about setting up free wifi in his
> store a couple years ago.  Apparently, the SBC rep explained to him that
> he had no choice but to place the encrypted 2wire AP on his DSL
> connection since his store was considered a public space (i.e. not
> residential).  The coffeeshop owner had no interest in letting SBC
> demand paid subscriptions over a broadband service that he was already
> paying for, and simply opted for no DSL at all.
>
> SBC's brain-damaged business model likely resulted in this scheme's
> stillbirth, along with not a small number of lost customers, I gather.
>
> David Young wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:04:15PM -0600, ben wrote:
> >
> > Years ago, SBC (now AT&T) would sell you your DSL with one of those
> > frightening 400mW 2Wire-brand access points.  As I recall, WEP was
> > activated by default.  I thought SBC was going to use those APs to
> > provide a paid WiFi roaming service.  They never did.  I don't know if
> > the idea hadn't actually occurred to them, or if they weren't able to
> > sell enough APs to get the coverage they desired.
> >
> > Dave


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