DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
Premium,VIP
join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
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| reply to JohnInSJ
Re: Hosting a WiFi hotspot?
We're somewhat pre-launch right now, but within some narrow parameters, additional participation is possible:
Only a single free tier is available, currently set at 1Mbps downstream at 200kbps upstream. This tier is intended to be ad supported, and that ad revenue would be split with all hosts of the network, but ad support isn't yet online. This free tier may be reduced in speed to somewhere between 500kbps and 1Mbps in future.
Two higher tiers are intended:
A 1.5Mbps tier for any Sonic.net customers, authenticated via WPA, at no additional cost. Ad supported.
A 3.0Mbps tier, also WPA, exclusively for use by those who host a gateway node on their DSL line (that's you!).
These two are not yet online either.
Hosts today must have either:
Static IP DSL service and an available switch port and IP address for assignment via DHCP. Note that we assign DHCP from the top of the block to the bottom, so if you have statically set a system on your first and second IPs, and you plug in the Meraki hardware and it asks for an IP, we'll give it the last one in your block. Careful if you mix and match hard set and DHCP!
..or a router which offers a private IP via DHCP.
With all of these things in mind, if you'd like to join the testing, the (subsidized) hardware cost is currently $40 (which we'll just place on your account), and we'll cover the shipping. Email me if you want one, dane@sonic.net, with your Sonic.net login, DSL service address, and if it's different, UPS shipping address. I'll send you a little care package. 
-Dane |
