Jim Gurd
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join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI | Making money
So how does Bill make any money if he has a bunch of Linus's using his network? |
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LaZ3R
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join:2003-01-17 | My question exactly. You'll end up having a bunch of "linus's" leeching off of you for free. I don't understand this...
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LaZ3R
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join:2003-01-17
 ·Rogers Hi-Speed
| "Every person in the UK who agrees to share a small portion of their home broadband connection will be able to share the connection of any other member. "
Why... Why would I want to share my connection with someone else who already has their own connection. I'm simply not understanding the huge benefit of sharing your connection with everyone around you for free.
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reelbigfish
join:2002-06-06
Boston, MA
·Comcast
 ·Comcast Digital Vo..
| The point is you can share when you are away from home. Near where I live, there is an apartment building with a busy Starbucks in the basement. That means if you are a Linus you get free Wifi there or you can pay less to use it than Starbucks' T-Mobile wireless. Granted, as a Bill, you don't make money on them, but I'm sure there are other people that would pay for the usage. It really only works in dense area's. No one would use it if you are on your own 5 acres of land. |
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knightmb
Everybody Lies
join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
 ·AT&T DSL Service
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said by Jim Gurd  :So how does Bill make any money if he has a bunch of Linus's using his network? Aliens, defined as those not part of the FON community. If they want access, they pay a fee for 24 hours access. The "Bill" or person who has the wi-fi hot-spot gets about half of what is made. I know because I run the "Bill" FON hot-spot and had a few people a month use it. I don't really care about the money, I would give it away for free. But I want to avoid the 24/7 leechers. This runs on my Comcast account, but I use my m0n0wall box to traffic shape their bandwidth to around 3.0 MB Down / 256 Kb Up. They also sit on the lowest priority for bandwidth so that high usage won't affect the bandwidth used by the company.
One thing I have to give them credit for, their custom firmware for the linksys hack the power level up as high as it can go because these things have some range that I've never seen before in off the shelf linksys routers. |
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Tikker_LoS
join:2004-04-29
Regina, SK | exactly
I think I make 10 or 12 bucks a month off mine, and 99% of the usage is while I'm at work and not using it anyway |
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