Zone_Drive
Newbie  Posts: 1 Registered: 19/8/03 Status: Offline |
 posted on 19/8/03 at 01:37
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Hey im new to the forum so nice to meet you all
I am thinking of starting a p2p wifi network in my local area, i am new to
this game and have no formal computer related education or certification
but do hope to do a LCA this year. I am only 17 so most peopel will stop
reading now. If your still reading i would very much like to hear of other
peoples experiences of using wifi anything that may help. Even if you've
only allowed open access for ppl to use the net. good on ya 
I look forward to any replys.
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billclark
Newbie Posts: 2 Registered: 25/8/03 Status: Offline |
posted on 25/8/03 at 10:40 |
Hello,
Best thing to do is to go to seattlewireless.net to get a lot of
informationl. We are setting up a free WIFI network from members access
points/gateways. There is a ton of information on the site.
Good luck,
bc
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festprint
SuperAdmin  Posts: 119 Registered: 2/1/03 Status: Online |
posted on 14/5/09 at 15:34 |
quote:
Hey im new to the forum
so nice to meet you all
I am thinking of starting a p2p wifi network in my local area, i am new to
this game and have no formal computer related education or certification
but do hope to do a LCA this year. I am only 17 so most peopel will stop
reading now. If your still reading i would very much like to hear of other
peoples experiences of using wifi anything that may help. Even if you've
only allowed open access for ppl to use the net. good on ya
I look forward to any replys.
Zone_Drive, now you are 23 ish, you probably figured that one out by now
LOL.
There are two sides to the Wi-Fi / Wireless sharing arguments. One is
sharing your Internet connection, the other is sharing your files.
Sharing your Internet connection: With some wireless internet or broadband
providers (WISPs) in some countries, sharing your Internet connection by
allowing other computers accessing your router or wi-fi card is restricted
to a certain number, most allow up to six computers / laptops. I can see
the logic here, the more people you share with, the less sales and revenue
those Wireless ISPs are going to get. Suppose a country has 1 million
inhabitants, 10k of them buy a broadband package and share it with 990000
users, wouldn't those WISPs prefer 200k buying the service and sharing with
800k, it's always better and more profitable with more revenue than 10k!
Sharing your files: Wi-Fi sharing of certain copyright (or otherwise) is a
matter of personal responsibility and in some countries is even illegal or
very restricted. The argument is still going on whether sharing your own
paid for files / audio or video over wi-fi without control whatsoever is
permissible, doing so according to some is the same as Peer-To-Peer (P2P)
Internet networks. I guess some may have a point, if you paid for music
downloads of 100 tracks for example, you can't just let the whole campus on
your Uni or the whole neighborhood download them from your computer as they
did not pay for them!
The Wi-Fi Technology Forum owns WirelessGet and the site wirelessget.com.
WirelessGet is a wireless file sharing software and it's free, one of its
features is downloading from other computers with resume capability over
wireless. Check it out at the site or at any major download sites such as
cnet download. As long as the host computer allows you to share files and
folders, you can copy and import, though some open networks can still be
open, we do not condone (nor encourage) wardriving using it.
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