[183653] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WiFI on utility poles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Boyd)
Thu Sep 10 10:57:08 2015
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From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150910041350.53547.qmail@ary.lan>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:57:02 -0500
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> On Sep 9, 2015, at 11:13 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>=20
> The placement may be suboptimal, but free wifi away from home is nice.
> CableWifi really is a consortium, T-W customers can use Comcast's
> hotspots and vice versa.
If it were truly free and open access I=E2=80=99d be more tolerant of =
them stomping on my signal, but you have to be a CableCo customer in =
order to use it. The truly sucky thing about TWC=E2=80=99s deployment =
is that they are also installing it in restaurants, bars, and similar =
venues=E2=80=94sometimes displacing the open access setup that was =
already there. They conveniently forget to tell the owner/manager that =
it=E2=80=99s not really free access.
=E2=80=94Chris
(Who spent many hours helping restaurants, bars, and similar venues in =
the Austin area set up guest wireless networks.)=
