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I like the assumption that wifi shouldn't be open. Why would you want to share your resources with friends and neighbours?
by danw 17y ago
I like the assumption that wifi shouldn't be open. Why would you want to share your resources with friends and neighbours?
- Zak 17y agoI used to until they started using my network for bittorrent to the point that it consistently had poor performance. I'd set something up to throttle bandwidth and restrict certain protocols from unregistered MACs, but I'm not motivated to make that much of an effort to share my network.
- LogicHoleFlaw 17y agoI leave my network open with a note to please not abuse it :) I haven't had any problems yet, but I do have QoS set up to preserve the traffic I care about. Honestly, it's rare that I've had guests log in to the network. Looking at the MAC analyses it seems that it's mostly sporadic visitors with laptops and so on. Which is exactly the sort of borrowing I encourage.
- danw 17y agoThis is where the FON wifi routers are designed to fit in, with a private AP for yourself and a throttled public AP. Shame the 'public' AP is only available to other FON users. It would only take a few hours to create this set up yourself I guess, but FON is ready after being plugged in.
- froo 17y agoThe thing about having an Open Wireless connection here in Australia is that we generally have caps on the amount of bandwidth our internet plans come with. Once you go over that cap, your connection becomes rate limited and it feels like you're back in the stoneage. So, even for that reason, sharing connections here in Aus is a bad idea because all you need is one bandwidth hog to screw up your internet. Blame Telstra :(
- poiuytrrew 17y agoBecause they are spending millions of $ on internet spying systems and it's all pointless if the terrorists can control their kangaroos with laser beams from an open wifi. http://www.censordyne.com.au/ http://www.censordyne.com.au/