Comment Community WiFi (Score 2, Interesting) 285
Sigh. Jaded comments run rampant, but I too find my innards all in a twist.
One of Speakeasy's best policies is their encouragement to share your bandwidth via WiFi if you see fit. I do exactly that in South Philly with Speakeasy's OneLink on an extremely stable 6.0/768 with 3 statics, and provide free WiFi for anyone within reach of my externally mounted antenna. There's about 10ish regulars and who knows how many transients, so while it's not massive, chats have begun with others in the area around providing more unified coverage. I'm stoked to provide this to the area, and consider it a community utility to be spread and promoted for those with the skills and means.
Almost all other ISP's policies threaten you with hell and damnation for doing this, but Speakeasy's policy enables community through sharing. There's no easier way to bridge the last mile in the digital divide than throwing a bit of RF out your front window and carving off a bit of your bandwidth(know what you're doing), and that wouldn't be possible without the support of ISP's who Grok like Speakeasy.
I challenge the Big Box store to keep that policy alive. However, the jaded comments above weigh upon me and I suspect the eventual worst. I suspect the lawyers in Minnesota are far more an*l than Seattle. Sure they have the flannel in the closet, but for totally different reasons. And I suspect they're not as willing to let their junk hang out in the progressive wind. Happened at Netcom... first they lose the quality support crew, then they lose the shells, then they lose the women...
Signed,
Freaked out in Philly
One of Speakeasy's best policies is their encouragement to share your bandwidth via WiFi if you see fit. I do exactly that in South Philly with Speakeasy's OneLink on an extremely stable 6.0/768 with 3 statics, and provide free WiFi for anyone within reach of my externally mounted antenna. There's about 10ish regulars and who knows how many transients, so while it's not massive, chats have begun with others in the area around providing more unified coverage. I'm stoked to provide this to the area, and consider it a community utility to be spread and promoted for those with the skills and means.
Almost all other ISP's policies threaten you with hell and damnation for doing this, but Speakeasy's policy enables community through sharing. There's no easier way to bridge the last mile in the digital divide than throwing a bit of RF out your front window and carving off a bit of your bandwidth(know what you're doing), and that wouldn't be possible without the support of ISP's who Grok like Speakeasy.
I challenge the Big Box store to keep that policy alive. However, the jaded comments above weigh upon me and I suspect the eventual worst. I suspect the lawyers in Minnesota are far more an*l than Seattle. Sure they have the flannel in the closet, but for totally different reasons. And I suspect they're not as willing to let their junk hang out in the progressive wind. Happened at Netcom... first they lose the quality support crew, then they lose the shells, then they lose the women...
Signed,
Freaked out in Philly
