Open Wireless Movement

[Ron Bean]

https://openwireless.org/

[Jack'D]

I've been running an open AP with tomato and bandwidth shaping for nearly 5 years now with almost no issues.  When I got my internet turned off once for copyright infringement they said there were two prior click-through notices that I never saw, but the one it got shut off for turned out to be a household member.  When me and my provider had "the talk" they asked if I had a password on my wifi: Me: "nope" Them "You probably want to put one of those on - it could be your neighbors sharing files."  Long story short, they turned it back on.  I have been considering pushing all the traffic through a VPN to avoid future hassles, though.

When I moved out of my last place, one of my neighbors asked if I had a wireless connection called "wifizzle", when I answered in the affirmative they were like "oh man, I guess I'm going to have to get internet now, I've been using that since I moved in".  There's usually around 4 unknown devices connected to it, mostly phones.  I like to share :)

-Jack

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:09:58 PM UTC-5, Ron Bean wrote:

https://openwireless.org/

[Ed Hagopian]

I run an open guest network specifically because it gives me plausible deniability. There is no law or agreement I have with my provider demanding I have a password on my WiFi router. If I'm ever hacked and used for any nefarious purposes it becomes that much more difficult to defend if you were in a "secure" network. My home network is on a separate unreachable segment, but it would all look the same from the ISP. Therefore having it open gives reasonable doubt to if it was me or a hacker. Secure your data and equipment, not the network which doesn't belong to you anyway once it hits the cable modem.