[95129] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC on wifi at hotel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Harrowell)
Thu Mar 1 04:46:55 2007
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:46:00 +0000
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: "Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>, "Steve Meuse" <smeuse@gmail.com>,
"Jared Mauch" <jared@puck.nether.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <366100670702281958w1d058fd5q368ade2bb578ad2c@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3/1/07, Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/28/07, Brian <bri@sonicboom.org> wrote:
> > a small number of wifi users with a card in a laptop to get to cellular
> > broadband, itd be pretty easy..
>
> Or directional wifi uplink to a building nearby, preferably G vs B (for
> 54Mbps).
Just *say* you're using the hotel WLAN. If they show up with a
spectrum analyser, well...you'll have to pay, but then that reminds me
of the calibration standard for the first radar speed trap, which was
based on a measurement by the National Physical Laboratory on the
basis that if you could prove the NPL wrong you deserved to get away
with speeding.
