[OpenWireless Tech] France SFR open system

["Andy Green (林安廸)"]

On 11/06/12 02:18, the mail apparently from Eugene Smiley included:
> The problem being that most residential broadband providers in the
> U.S. have a noresale clause in their TOS which says that one can't
> share ones internet service.

Well, there is no _sale_ happening, they probably don't care much.

> The way around this is to mask ones traffic such that the ISP doesn't
> know that a shared AP doesn't reside on their network. The means using
> a VPN to direct all traffic to an endpoint in a data center somewhere
> with a fat pipe and large bandwitdh allotment.

It's also interesting to look at your wr703 plan the other way around as 
well... so that when you are on the road, your home router could act as 
your VPN server.

So you connect from your hotel wifi or from one of these free VPN-only 
APs to your home router, who then proxies your traffic through your 
otherwise idle home connection at no extra cost.

You don't need a VPN pipe fatter than your end-end bandwidth anyway; 
since it's just you using your own home router you get up to half your 
home bandwidth remotely that way, which is probably more bandwidth than 
the shared WLAN AP would give you.

-Andy

> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Jonathan Collins <j at aptos.us> wrote:
>> The dsl & wireless company SFR in France has implemented a very interesting "open" wifi system.
>>
>> If the subscriber sets their SFR router to allow outside access then the subscriber is allowed free access to the ubiquitous "SFR WIFI" ssid found all over France. Allowing one's router to be open, creates this ssid consistently for all to use and separates the wifi traffic.
>>
>> While this system is not free, if you contribute bandwidth, you get access elsewhere. If our routers allowed this, it could be implemented across all ISP providers.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> Jonathan Collins
>> Aptos, CA 95001
>>
>>
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