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

Stelios Valavanis stel at onshore.com
Fri Feb 8 16:16:02 CST 2008


care to elaborate?

On Friday 08 February 2008 3:43:19 pm Aaron Kaplan wrote:
> 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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