[wsfii-discuss] It is treating Wi-Fi as communal property when it is not.....

Wed Feb 8 15:14:29 UTC 2006

As I understand it, we've a right in the UK protected by law to share
WiFi with our neighbours and it's been that way for the best part of a
decade? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/02/27/become_a_wireless_isp/

Paula

Karel Kulhavy wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:02:30PM +0100, Rob Flickenger wrote:
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>>On Feb 7, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Karel Kulhavy wrote:
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>>>What is breaking the law? Free networks or Fon? Where is the proof
>>>that law is broken?
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>>I think he meant violating the acceptable use policy with your ISP.   
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>His argument is invalid because not all ISPs have acceptable use policy
>that ban further sharing. For example in Prague we bought a 1Mbps full
>duplex line and shared it among 25 households using wired Ethernet,
>Ronja and WiFi, and it was in accordance with the provider, the provider
>even knew well detais of how it was realized. The provider partially
>de-shaped the stream and allowed us to do the shaping by us in a custom
>way we liked as long as we didn't exceed the 1Mbps short-time average
>speed.
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>>But the "breaking the law" phrase is often tossed out in the popular  
>>press.  Personally I think it's pure FUD, but in the context of the  
>>article it's hard to tell if it was taken out of context.
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>>http://constructiveinterference.net/archives/186
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>>--Rob
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