ru4rl
join:2003-12-28
Durham, NC
| This stuff is great...
These kind of products do serve a legit purpose. There are still people all over the world that can get cell service near their house, but no cable/dsl or any other form of high speed internet. Recently my mother moved to a small town outside of Chapel Hill, NC and Time Warner refuses to run Cable out there (she offered to pay a resonable amount to have them extend the line) and BellSouth does not think it is fesible enough to add a CO or RT out there. I don't much blame them there. Of course there is always Satellite internet but you can't play WoW on that, yes she plays WoW. As luck would have it her cell provider, Alltel, has an EVDO equiped tower about 4 miles from her and she was able to get internet access through the EVDO network. I want to get one of these for her since she has a desktop and a laptop but I'll wait until the prices come down a bit. Just my $0.02 |
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FiosFiend
join:2001-12-06
Flower Mound, TX
| My personal feeling is that most people using these routers aren't sharing their bandwidth with people in a coffee house. Their using it to share bandwidth between computers in their house or office. What's wrong with that?
Before routers were widely available the ISP's used to charge for an extra IP address. I know, I had to pay $5 a month for an extra IP address with @home when I first got it years ago. When routers started flooding the market the ISP's realized that they couldn't do this anymore and just went with it. Did they loose their shirts over routers??? No and they are not going to now.
It amazes me how telcos assume that everyone is a pirate or a criminal. If I buy a service I should be able to use that service any way I want within the limits of the agreement. If they're going to offer up an unlimited package then what difference does it make if I share between computers in my house or between a halfdozen folks at the local park?? |
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