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On the bright side, it illustrates the profit margins and excess bandwidth that ISPs have. They are making plenty, and for a few thousand people to "slice some
by neogodless 10y ago
On the bright side, it illustrates the profit margins and excess bandwidth that ISPs have. They are making plenty, and for a few thousand people to "slice some off the top" for sharing isn't going to crush them.
But this may prove to not be scalable. It's almost certainly against most terms of service for those that actually pay to connect to the internet. Of course, I'd say "if everyone connected this way, where would the internet come from?" but then they'd all be connected anyway...
- rayiner 10y ago> On the bright side, it illustrates the profit margins and excess bandwidth that ISPs have. How? Though I totally agree with the general idea that wireless is the way to go. You can dramatically reduce build-out costs by just building fiber to the node and point-to-point wireless for the last hop.
- wmf 10y agoGuifi probably started by "stealing" bandwidth from consumer ISP connections, but it looks like they are now buying 36K EUR/year of wholesale transit: http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-en.pdf http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/crowds-guifi-en.pdf (section 5.2)
- calgoo 10y agoGuifi has a connection to the local Internet Exchange in barcelona (catnix) which is managed by exo.cat (an association of people paying a bi-yearly fee to support the expansion of the guifi network) as well as other connections around barcelona and other cities / towns. A lot of people shared their internet bandwidth which here in Spain was not illegal or blocked by the ISPs if you where smart. There are also several small ISPs that have been created that sells internet and telephone services over the guifi network.