[SATLUG] Free WiFi Router if you'll join the system (which is also free and gets you free wifi all over!)

[Sean Carolan]

> Someone here with more FON experience want to touch on the topic of US
> broadband providers and how they take to sharing their BB client bandwidth
> with open wifi systems like these?  Anyone ever heard of any AUP enforcement
> or blacklisting or the like?  Just curious what other's experience have been
> with doing this kind of stuff but keeping out of hot water with your BB ISP.

The only ISP that I'm aware of that allows sharing of your bandwidth
is SpeakEasy:
http://www.speakeasy.net/netshare/

How will the ISP be able to tell what you're doing behind your own NAT
router?  And is it any of their business anyway?  As soon as they
start to try and make their TOS cover what goes on inside your LAN,
they open a whole can of worms as far as liability goes.  Any thoughts
on this?  Recent lawsuits filed by the RIAA have been struck down
because an IP address != the person committing the alleged crime.

Personally I have used Time Warner Road Runner for some years now, and
have found them easy to deal with.  No port blocking, no bandwidth
throttling, etc.  They seem to be pretty much hands-off once they
connect you to the network.  The technicians who installed the modem
certainly didn't care that I had a wireless router or what I was doing
with it.