RE: [Nolug] Broadbanding together

NOLUG Communications?

At that point, anyone involved would eventually be left in the same
situation as the cable and DSL providers. Once a user begins using the
bandwidth for business_purposes/reselling_it/hogging_it_to_death/etc..,
the rest of the crew will want to impose policy restrictions to keep
away bandwidth hogs (block certain ports, rate limiting, dynamic IPs)
... I suppose some people might start complaining about the service
then. Just one person leaving a P2P application on all day serving
whatever and BAM, instant policies in effect. I wonder if a service
contract would go into affect once the original members started moving
out of the area or wanted out of the deal ... I wouldn't want to be the
sole fool stuck with the bill for that fat pipe.

How much do T1, DS3 connections run anyway?

Pessimist,
Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nolug@patientcarerx.com
[mailto:owner-nolug@patientcarerx.com] On Behalf Of Ron Johnson
Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 2:59 AM
To: nolug@patientcarerx.com
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Broadbanding together

On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 22:11, Edward Melendez wrote:
> Well, if you are worried about how BellSouth or Cox is going to make
ends
> meet, then change the question.
>
> What if a group of users got together, pooled their resources for a
shared
> commercial class connection and created a wireless LAN in their
> neighborhood or office building?

I'm sure that would be legal, since you'd be forming a partnership,
or non-profit corporation.

All of that personally purchased bandwidth is wasted most of the
day, anyway, so a pooled resource may be cost-justified (except
in the prime evening hours, when most people are on).

> At 02:05 PM 3/8/2002 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> >(Response #1)
> >Jeezus Fscking Xrist. Do what every other adult does: get a
> >job, prioritize, budget your money, and pay your bills.
> >
> >(Response #2)
> >This is _so_ against AUP, and I can make a very good argument
> >that it is stealing.
> >http://support.cox.net/custsup/policies/acceptableuse.shtml
> >One of the Prohibited Activities is
> >* Use the Services on more than a single computer, unless
> > otherwise authorized by CoxCom.
> >I really don't think that Cox (or Charter, or BellSouth, for
> >that matter) would look kindly upon a dozen seperate households
> >sharing one line.
> >
> >The relevant paragraph in the article focuses on "you can't tell
> >us we can't broadcast over 802.11b". Well, the ISP doesn't really
> >_care_ what the "medium of exchange" is. They'd be just as pissed
> >if I ran cat5 from my switch to my neighbors.
> >
> >
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