The UK Gov’t has pledged at the recent e-summit to get every school onto broadband by 2006. This is rather good but if you are going thereby to ensure every remote village has broadband access anyway, why not find some way to ensure that the bandwidth is also available to other people in the area who are not already served? How about some form of public wireless mesh network with schools as the hubs in internet-deprived areas?advances loan 10 payday texas 1415 10 for loan paydayloan 14 payday 10 payday loans12 payday credit 17 loanpayday 6 free 4 information loan5 payday no loan credit 7payday 7 texas loan 5payday cash account advance loanhouse add loan urlloan payday quick advance

I have my doubts about the figure but for what it is worth – some encouragement for people who see a big future for the mobile Internet.credit table cards for ammoritzationbill payment llc agricredit acceptanceamro sales abn adrian credit hullportland advantis union credit ortraining sonography columbus accredited program ohioaldine isd credit recoveryaasm accreditation standardscreditsecure american express Mapcredit 2008 checks taxaccredited abroad studyonline accredited doctoral programsbodies iso accreditationach and card software creditonline accredited degrees nursingmerchant account card bank texas creditcredit visa aa card Map

I didn’t think there was much of a risk to an individual subscriber from WiFi piracy – after all there is normally plenty of bandwidth for all on a broadband connection – but if you used your neighbor’s network to make a file that is in a lot of demand available you could end up saturating their broadband and making it almost unusable.

AT&T Broadband is warning customers to secure their Wi-Fi networks after an unusual case in which a subscriber played an unwitting role in dispatching a pirated movie over the Internet… The movie pirate lived next door to the subscriber, and was able to access his neighbor’s Wi-Fi wireless network to send the movie out over his neighbor’s Broadband…pornagraphy amaturefrere adult movies sex for asianames analyzerporno maroc acttressesassault and abduction restraint sexualcross porn alex1970s trucking co minnesota pornteens georgetown crash 6 feed rss Mapmp3 festival academic hindsleymp3 2g sizemp3 96 avalonabacus mp3 live mixinput f150 2006 mp3 audiophile fordandroid mp3 acid6 mp3 minutesdese nil adara mp3 Map

Today’s Doonesbury cartoon suggests that people piggy-backing on others’ WiFi connections are perceived to be “stealing” from them. In fact, I imagine that in most cases the bandwidth “stolen” wouldn’t be missed – the Internet provider is the one with most to lose (though that is hard to put across in a cartoon!)pornography moviemovies pornstarsmovie preggo fuckingmovie quicktime previewporn movies quicktimemovies porn ratesex sample movies interracialexclusive sapphic moviesmovies juice sapphicmovies women sapphicpussy Behaarte afrikanischenDanny Sex Cartoon Phantomreifen Porno AsianInterrassisch Geschlecht betrügen Frauclits Reifeeating Männer CreampieAsian pics Schule Mädchenchaueffering BDSMalte Mutter Sex Kostenloslecken Lesben Video ersten Malporn amature movies homeconference 2007 analysis thermal 3rdanalog clock 24 hour18 nikki pornstar70 gay s pornalcohol abuse among teenagersteen video amatuer adult365 indian sex Map

In the US, Time Warner is starting to warn its users against sharing their bandwidth using wireless LANs. Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing, who brought this to my attention says, “I hope that 802.11a mesh-networks without any connection to an ISP (other than at a major network interchange like MAE West) take off soon, and put these fools out of commission.” But I can see the ISPs’ point – Every person who shares someone else’s connection free of charge is one fewer paying customer.

Now if wireless LAN users were charged by those that they shared from and some of that charge was funnelled back to the ISP providing the “backbone” – that might be sustainable. I suspect Sputnik and Boingo may employ this model.

The arguments arising are very similar in nature to those over sharing intellectual property. People are saying “I paid for this bandwidth I should be able to give it away to anyone I like”. But it’s important to realise that ISPs need to make money somehow or there won’t be any bandwidth around to share…

BT has launched the first three nodes of its planned nationwide public wireless network (using WiFi, covering airports and hotels etc) but the pricing revealed to the BBC seems a little high – “less than £95 a month [$140] for continuous use” albeit with discounts for early adopters. Let’s hope charges drop rapidly…bank loan 5000 dollar fromloan home financing fha 100credit loan bad 30000 withscholar loan academicbill 91 day t student loanjeff about rich and sloanlot down loans michigan in 0loan $50,000a donald sloanamerican grant dream loan

An article from Telephony magazine in the US explains how local government engineers in the Appalachians are forming their own broadband carrier using wireless technology because the telco in the area wasn’t interested in providing it at a reasonable price.

Allegany County already had a complex broadband wireless network in place to serve its government offices and schools.

“Connecting the county’s sparse, widespread populace with fiber would have cost $180 million. By comparison, the radio buildout will cost the county between $2.9 million and $5 million, most of which the county plans to raise through state grants, Blank said. With that investment, Allconet will be able to offer 85% of the county’s population, 95% of its businesses and 100% of its business parks broadband access.

For consumers, each base station will transmit 360° on the 2.4 GHz unlicensed frequencies offering 3 Mb/s of capacity. For business customers, Allconet will transmit from the same base stations using the 5.8 GHz frequency to offer up to 60 Mb/s of capacity.”

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“Allconet will be able to lease a DS-3 [44.736 Mbps] for $3500 per month, while its equivalent in the high-tech corridor of northern Virginia runs $14,500. ”

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The Register reports that the Government from end of July will allow commercial provision of public Wi-Fi/802.11b networks.

“Previously, public WLANs in the UK could only be set up and used if no money changed hands, and operators were supposed to obtain a Wireless Telegraphy Act licence. However operators will still need a Telecommunications Act licence.”

This move should make it a lot easier not just for companies like Starbucks and BT to offer wireless Internet access but also for non-profit community organizations to make it available without as much red tape.

Another company springs up in the US (to acclaim from the tech community) to encourage people to share their broadband using their wireless network equipment. Joltage’s idea is similar to what Sputnik wants to do (except unlike Sputnik it doesn’t seem to be open source). The key (to me) is in this para from this Wired report:

“At $50 per month, a DSL line — if shared by multiple users — could easily eat up several hundreds of dollars’ worth of wholesale network traffic at the back end.

“As ISPs realize this stuff is going on, they’re going to start looking closer at the heavy traffic users,” said Mike Durkin, president of Raw Bandwidth Communications, a Belmont, California, provider of home DSL service. “Think Napster and how ISPs and universities can block it.”

I think this is where the whole concept will come unglued unless the telcos also get a slice. If they do get a slice, though, it could be a good business, especially if standard antennas start offering greater range. It might also be a good way to encourage the development of community-wide networks run by not-for-profit organizations in depressed areas (a particular interest of mine).

A depressing side note – it is possible that 802.11a – the higher speed, incompatible upgrade due in November – may have a smaller range (60 feet vs 300 feet), so if people start migrating to that then the opportunities for neighborhood-wide sharing would be less. (Another publication says that the range should be the same).

Interesting piece on Sputnik which is trying to create an ad hoc commercial wireless network through “affiliates” who make their broadband connections available to Sputnik’s fee-paying members (presumably receiving some kick-back from Sputnik when they do so).

What isn’t mentioned in the article above is that to use Sputnik you have to dedicate a machine completely to acting as a server and you have to burn a CD-R with the software for the machine to boot from. My guess is that this will limit the user base to eager early adopters. If it were a Windows/Mac app that people could install and run in the background, then it might really take off…

Also not mentioned is what happens if DSL providers find large amounts of their bandwidth is being used by a bunch of people who are not only not paying the ISP any additional money but are paying some third party company. Sputnik itself asserts “Sputnik offers many benefits to ISPs” (without enumerating them) and they add, “Sputnik does not support any activities that violate an ISP’s acceptable usage policy”.

It remains to be seen whether they can resolve the underlying problems – but it is still good to see inventive people trying to create new solutions to the “last mile” problem!

P.S. Boingo Wireless is also offering wireless roaming, but with a more conventional business model.