hotspot ???

an old friend has opened a very small cafe near a college in a small town in
Ontario, Canada...
$$$ is extremely tight but she thinks that if the cafe was a wifi hotspot
more students would come by...
am i stupid or can it be as simple as ordering a high speed cable isp &
using a simple WRT54G type of router ???
there would likely never be more than about 5 laptops surfing at any time...
are there additional fees to the isp for doing this ???

thanks, mike.

On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 09:24:43 -0500, "mike" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>an old friend has opened a very small cafe near a college in a small town in
>Ontario, Canada...
>$$$ is extremely tight but she thinks that if the cafe was a wifi hotspot
>more students would come by...
>am i stupid or can it be as simple as ordering a high speed cable isp &
>using a simple WRT54G type of router ???
>there would likely never be more than about 5 laptops surfing at any time...
>are there additional fees to the isp for doing this ???
>
>thanks, mike.
>

I have no idea what the rules are in Canada, but my experience here in
Texas is that my "regular" ISP forbids the practice.... however, in
checking with the HughesNet local installer, he says it's no problem
with HughesNet. However, HughesNet has it's own limitations.... both
access speed and MB downloadable and uploadable. So in effect their
limits limit the total amount of traffic the cafe could handle.

I really think they would have to check with the cable internet
provider that services the area to know for sure.

Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/