bobrk
You kids get offa my lawn
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join:2000-02-02
San Jose, CA
 ·SONIC.NET
| reply to DaneJasper
Re: Hosting a WiFi hotspot?
I'd go for it, too. I used to host one back when I had static ip service, but I couldn't afford that after I got laid off. I might consider going back on now that I've been working, but the only thing is, I'm in a residential neighborhood further away from SJSU than Djdeadly  and I doubt that it would get much traffic. I just did it for the fun of it before, and I don't think any other Sonic customers were in the area because nobody ever logged on.
I have my own equipment for this so I wouldn't be interested in paying for it.
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guhuna
R.I.P Mike
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join:2001-03-31
Brentwood, CA | Same here, when I had mine setup no one logged into it. I had 2 dish type antennas pointing outside my window yet no one ever connected.
I have my own equipment also just for the hotspot. |
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DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
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join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
clubs:
| Our challenge is that this is a mesh network - so it requires a specific bit of hardware and firmware. There ARE some folks hacking this OS/software into other hardware, but it's complex and not very well supported.
So - one issue may be that customers already have APs, and would like to offer access but cannot become part of the mesh network. We'll keep that in mind.
The benefits of the Meraki hardware are of course the mesh, plus security and authentication. It also promises to provide tiers of access, free bandwidth limited access which is ad supported as well as faster access which might be WPA authenticated.
The security portion is important - an open AP can be a magnet for abuse, and having logs showing who used what IP and when is very useful when the authorities come knocking. In other words, being able to prove that you, the DSL end-user who is hosting the gear was NOT the person who did the bad thing saves an awful lot of explaining. 
-Dane |
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guhuna
R.I.P Mike
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Brentwood, CA
·Covad Communications
·SONIC.NET
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| said by DaneJasper : There ARE some folks hacking this OS/software into other hardware, but it's complex and not very well supported. -Dane I'd like to know a little bit more on that subject.  I have 3 different wireless A/P's I can fool around with. One linky one Netgear and one that's literally homemade that runs DD-WRT. |
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DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
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join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
clubs:
| I might have it backwards - you can hack the Meraki to run OpenWRT, but I'm not sure if the Meraki OS will run on other hardware.
»wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Har···aki/Mini
-Dane |
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