Toronto public wireless AP experience?

Has anyone in Toronto, Ontario, Canada tried running a public wireless
access point? Did people use it? Any experiences to share?

--Mitchua

In article <Pdvwb.5265$(E-Mail Removed) ers.com>,
Mitchua <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
:Has anyone in Toronto, Ontario, Canada tried running a public wireless
:access point? Did people use it? Any experiences to share?

Oh, yes, people certainly do use "public" wireless access points in
Toronto. It's making the news:

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/London...22/264890.html
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"Walter Roberson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bpu270$85g$(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <Pdvwb.5265$(E-Mail Removed) ers.com>,
> Mitchua <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> :Has anyone in Toronto, Ontario, Canada tried running a public wireless
> :access point? Did people use it? Any experiences to share?
>
> Oh, yes, people certainly do use "public" wireless access points in
> Toronto. It's making the news:
>
> http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/London...22/264890.html
> --

Well, other than the perverts :-)

That was more a case of war-driving than using a public access point.

--Mitchua

In article <Gvwwb.7461$(E-Mail Removed) ers.com>,
Mitchua <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
|"Walter Roberson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
|news:bpu270$85g$(E-Mail Removed)...
|> In article <Pdvwb.5265$(E-Mail Removed) ers.com>,
|> Mitchua <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
|> :Has anyone in Toronto, Ontario, Canada tried running a public wireless
|> :access point? Did people use it? Any experiences to share?

|Well, other than the perverts :-)

|That was more a case of war-driving than using a public access point.

Perhaps -- but if *you* were running a public access-point, what would
you do to prevent your facilities from being used in this manner?
(And what would you do about the related problem of people using
stolen credit card numbers?)

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"Walter Roberson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bpu676$a16$(E-Mail Removed)...
> In article <Gvwwb.7461$(E-Mail Removed) ers.com>,
> Mitchua <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> |"Walter Roberson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> |news:bpu270$85g$(E-Mail Removed)...
> |> In article <Pdvwb.5265$(E-Mail Removed) ers.com>,
> |> Mitchua <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> |> :Has anyone in Toronto, Ontario, Canada tried running a public wireless
> |> :access point? Did people use it? Any experiences to share?
>
> |Well, other than the perverts :-)
>
> |That was more a case of war-driving than using a public access point.
>
> Perhaps -- but if *you* were running a public access-point, what would
> you do to prevent your facilities from being used in this manner?

Make them register before using it.

> (And what would you do about the related problem of people using
> stolen credit card numbers?)

Credit card verification matched with MAC address (although both can be
fooled). I'd probably encrypt everything through a proxy on the web so I
wouldn't get sued for what anyone does.

>
> --
> Is "meme" descriptive or perscriptive? Does the knowledge that
> memes exist not subtly encourage the creation of more memes?
> -- A Child's Garden Of Memes