[MLB-WIRELESS] grumpy people

[Lucas Lozo]

Aggreed..

But my personal opinion is the wireless group will fail long term, for
these reasons.

Its a expensive cost to a individual who wants to create a node for the
benefit of others.

Bandwitdth is limited, once a number of users do get on, speed &
performance will suffer.

To someone that has thrown in $$$ in creating a access point will want
some resonable bandwitch for him self (why should he not if he invested
a number of dollars).

Reliability, how can other (users, leeches etc..) rely on a access point
that is
situated in some one else home, if he turns it off, goes on holidays or
locks up etc.

who is going to regulate what uses get on and control their bandwidth
usage..

You can have all the best intentioned people you like involved which all
all good and great, but there will always a few individuals who will
ruin the service for a number of reasons.

It may succeed if it became slightly commercial concern with token
access fees and some sort of full time control on the system.

My 0.02c worth....




-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Close [mailto:adrian at close.wattle.id.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2002 11:55 AM
To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] grumpy people


On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, dwayne wrote:

> ..need to get laid more often...
>
> http://www.worldtribune.com/wta/Archive-2001/mc10_01.html

Read it again.  He makes some good points.  A little extreme and _very_
capitalist ("Come the revolution..."), but extreme viewpoints are handy
reference points.  Just look at what Richard Stallman has done for the
world...  :)

To summarise:

1. Security is important.  Make sure you have some.

2. If you build it, the leeches will come.  Free or no, if you want the
service to remain usable, you'd better build in some controls (see point
#1).

Adrian Close			email:	adrian at close.wattle.id.au
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