[PLUG] Re: [PLUG-TALK] Cheap WiFi coming (?)

[Larry Brigman]

On 2/4/07, Denis Heidtmann <denish at dslnorthwest.net> wrote:
> Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > [I am moving this thread from plug-talk because the Meraki's run Linux.]
> >
> > Mel> An article in NYTimes today about Meraki.
> >
> > Mel> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/business/yourmoney/04digi.html?th&emc=th
> >
> > Mel> Their website?
> >
> > Mel> http://meraki.net/about/
> ...snip...
>
> Russell,
>
> This brings into focus a question I have had for some time.  Won't the ISP's
> financial interests urge them to seek ways to limit multi-family access?  My ISP
> gets $18/mo from me and from each of my neighbors.  It is easy to see that
> $18/house goes away with these schemes.
>
> This must have come up already.  Can you point to some discussions?

If you are behind a NATing router/firewall, the ISP will have a
difficult time proving that
you are sharing the resource.  They don't have limits on the number of computers
accessing the resource as long as it is all through one IP address.