[TriLUG] Time To Ditch RoadRunner?

[Jon Carnes]

If you are going to do this, be legal.  Use Speakeasy.net.  The price is
just a bit higher but you get a nice clear back-end that is not
overburdened *and* you can legally resell it (or split it with your
neighbors).

The reason Big Cable doesn't want you to split your access is that they
base their price on average per-household usage - plus you are depriving
them of customers by reselling their service and directly competing
against them.  Both of these are a big no-no.  If you do it, Big Cable
has every right to come after you.

Since there is a legal alternative, use it.

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 21:01, Aaron Bockover wrote:
> I personally don't see anything wrong with providing WiFi access to a
> personal broadband connection. I have considered doing the same for my
> cul-de-sac, charging under $10 a month for the access, essentially
> splitting the bill and the bandwidth in five directions. I'm using
> Smoothwall and a switch to route DSL access throughout the house, and
> I'd install a third network card (orange network, in Smoothwall terms)
> on which I would place a dedicated WAP to route the DSL to my neighbors
> wirelessly (two separate networks, one for my house, and one for my
> neighbors). The only problem with this is that I'd get to bandwidth
> hungry :-)
> 
> To really split the bandwidth between more than a cul-de-sac wouldn't
> work all that well, I would think. For a personal connection, something
> like DSL or Cable is decent, but for much more than a cul-de-sac's worth
> of people, I would think a bigger pipe would be needed, along with
> better wireless resources.
> 
> The only thing I can see objectionable to splitting the bill and the
> bandwidth is that there is no real way for RR to monitor it, which I
> would consider a bad thing anyway, unless they provide the hardware,
> which would be an even worse thing!
> 
> Now, if your intentions are to resell the bandwidth for profit, I am on
> the side of RR. I just don't think that home-level broadband is abundant
> enough to warrant reselling for profit. 
> 
> --Aaron
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:13, John Turner wrote:
> > Not reading the whole story, but if someone signed up for 1 RR account 
> > and then resold the service to lots of people I would think that would 
> > be a "no, no".  Even if it was a biz class account.
> > 
> > What if I got a "all you can eat meal" and then had everyone in TRILUG 
> > join me, but charged them eat a fee?  I am guessing the store wouldn't 
> > care much for that now.
> > 
> > In this case I think TWC just wants to get a fare fee for their service.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> > On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 10:32  AM, Mark Turner wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it time to ditch RoadRunner for a more wireless-friendly ISP? Does
> > > anyone know Earthlink's position on wireless use?
> > >
> > > If I can't find a cable broadband provider which is wireless-friendly, 
> > > I
> > > might go with Celito, who (along with Speakeasy) are among the few 
> > > local
> > > ISP choices that "get it."
> > >
> > > TWC is really p***ing me off with their apparent need to control the
> > > Internet.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > > --
> > >
> > > Time Warner Cable filed a lawsuit charging a New York apartment complex
> > > and its wireless Internet provider with illegally reselling its
> > > high-speed Road Runner service over a wireless network.
> > >
> > > The suit, filed Monday in the Southern district of New York, claims 
> > > that
> > > Internet service provider iNYC Wireless and London Terrace Towers, a
> > > residential apartment complex, have been illegally pirating and
> > > marketing Road Runner through a Wi-Fi network.
> > > --
> > > http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-5077922.html
> > >
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