My ISP is wiring up 400 hotspots and is allowing users to have free access for
limited time.
At home and at the office, I have different adsl accounts; which means that I
can either use one account to access the hotspots or both. I am testing to see
whether the speed will be doubled if I use both accounts to access the hotspots.
Over here in this country, adsl connections are slightly better than the 56k
dialup since access are through the respective ISP's proxies (which sucks)
I used to be on a 2.5M connection but have changed it to 512K without any loss
of speed.
I did a test by using both connections to download WinXP SP2 and both downloads
took about the same time, plus minus 15 minutes.
While sipping a glass of green tea, I read that Vanguard wrote in
news:e$8g03OBGHA.3104@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl
> "D@annyBoy" <origin @ld @nnyboy @ gm@il.com> wrote in message
> news:OAAAtbOBGHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> there are many wifi connections in the area where I work and 2 of them are
>> free
>> "Vanguard" <vanguard.code@comcastNIX.net> wrote in message
>> news:eMpH19MBGHA.1040@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> "D@annyBoy" <origin @ld @nnyboy @ gm@il.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%238FF6EKBGHA.2320@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>>>I remembered reading somewhere where MS offer software so that a system can
>>>>connect to 2 wifi connection at the same time? Anyone?
>>>
>>> Is it not possible to use ICS on a host which becomes the gateway between
>>> the 2 subnets for the 2 WiFi networks? I'd probably use a router which is
>>> always on rather than rely on having a host always on and using Windows with
>>> its ICS as a gateway node.
>
>
> Free WiFi? Sounds like someone didn't lock down the security for their WiFi
> so you can abuse it, but that doesn't make it free. If the owners of that
> WiFi are just customers of some ISP, they are not allowed to redistribute
> their bandwidth (i.e., they are violating the TOS for their ISP). Did you
> check with the owners of the other WiFi networks if you have permissions to
> use them? Did they check with the ISP that they can redistribute their
> bandwidth? Are you going to be legally responsible for any illegal content
> found on their hosts (you are part of their network)? Are they going to be
> legally responsible for any content on your hosts? How will you prevent
> yourself from getting blacklisted when the WiFi owner spews spam, or them
> getting blacklisted because you are operating an infected host that has a
> trojan mailer spewing spam? Will they be up 24x7? Will they provide a number
> to call at any time to report an outage? Do you really want to share the
> bandwidth with however many other "customers" they share their bandwidth
> (which means your share could get so tiny that dial-up would be faster)? Are
> they going to assign a QoS (Quality of Service) level for your network that
> connects to theirs so, for example, some huge download they perform won't end
> up locking out all other users? All risks and liabilities become enjoined by
> all users of the same WiFi network. Are the in a large mesh network to
> provide redundancy and large bandwidth in an attempt to provide a community
> wide WiFi network, or is this just some joker that is illegally sharing their
> ISP via an insecure WiFi setup?
>
> It is unclear (to me) if you are attempting to *share* someone else's WiFi
> network or to actually *switch* between them (which, I would think, could
> simply be done by defining multiple connectoids in your Network applet in
> Control Panel: you disable one connectoid and then enable the other one). When
> sharing WiFi, doesn't the strongest one get used (provided they let you
> connect)?
>
> Maybe you are talking about P2P WiFi. Most such users are violating the TOS
> for their ISPs. It would be easy for just one user to abuse the connection
> and get the owner (and all users) killed off by the ISP. Remember that you
> are letting the WiFi network owner and any user thereof into your network. You
> don't mention HOW the WiFi owner is sharing, selling, or otherwise making
> available their bandwidth. Maybe their using http://www.junxionbox.com/ or
> some other solution.