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

[Aaron Kaplan]

meraki sucks.


On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Stelios Valavanis wrote:

> 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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