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Originally Posted by handieman
I myself am going to go wireless with my signal and boost it to my neighborhood unsecured very soon. If the recipients want to chip in some bucks then maybe I can break even at least on my own small scale. Its not that difficult to secure my PC from intruders piggy backing my signal. Handie :joke: |
Efrahin, Wifi is not, by definition, free. What Handie is proposing for his neighborhood is probably the most common way to make money with the process, in varying scales. Handie is planning on using an unsecured system --- if you're in his hotspot, you can access the net directly. He's not looking for profit or even cost reimbursement. However, he could set up his system so only those who have userid/passwords could get on. That way, if he so chose, he could limit access to those who contribute toward his costs, or if large enough, provide him profit. Such a system would be limited by the range of the wireless hotspot (could be the size of a store or could be several blocks in area) and the size of the internet connection. You can really have some performance problems if say, in Handie's case, he had a relatively small pipe and had 20 users trying to download porn simultaneously.