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

Wed Feb 8 16:55:12 UTC 2006

Hi,
There may be contractual constraints on whether you are allowed to share
your bandwidth but in practice this is hard to police at the consumer
level. In the UK there are at least 200 local community networks sharing
xDSL, satellite or leased line backhaul in wireless mesh networks. We
advise that they use suppliers that permit sharing.

Regards,
Malcolm Corbett

Director
Community Broadband Network
Phone: +44 20 8318 4506
Mobile: +44 7770 896534
Skype: malcolmcorbett
Web: www.broadband-uk.coop

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[mailto:wsfii-discuss-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Paula
Sent: 08 February 2006 15:14
To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure
Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] It is treating Wi-Fi as communal property
whenit is not.....

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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>CL<
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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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