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i have an open wifi that my neighbours can use. the biggest problem is establishing consensus about how it should be used. what i intend is that anyone can us
by andrewcooke 14y ago
i have an open wifi that my neighbours can use. the biggest problem is establishing consensus about how it should be used.
what i intend is that anyone can use it, particularly for emergencies, but that you don't use it so much you damage my performance (or break the law).
i kind of assumed that was obvious. but in practice i need to ban someone about every 6 months. i just use the mac address to drop everything except port 80 tcp, which gets sent to a "you were banned because..." page.
that works fine - people aren't smart enough or motivated enough to work round the mac block - but it's too late, in that the person has lost all access as part of learning about the expected use.
so, anyway, for me that's what needs to be solved here - educating users about what is acceptable use of open wifi. i'm not really sure this solves it (i doubt people will actually look at the url in the ssid).
- nvr219 14y agoWhat I would do in this case is set up a eula that they need to accept in order to use the wifi. Even consumer-level routers can do this, if not out of the box than with Tomato/DD-WRT
- andrewcooke 14y agothanks, that's a good idea. the historical accident of how things ended up connected as they are means it's non-trivial to do right now. but i guess i should have it as a long-term goal. [edit: i do understand what you mean; but currently this is implemented just as a wifi endpoint (no router - just wifi) on an internal network and some iptables rules.]