Re: Secure? Installing a wireless router at next door neighbor's so I can surf

On 8/10/06, Jones, John (US) <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Booth is right.  Reselling the cable broadband service will almost
certainly be a TOS violation.

OK, hadn't thought about that.  I'll have to check the TOS to be sure, but
would I be able to sit in her living room with my laptop and use it?  Is
"reselling" it the issue?  What if I asked her to let me use it for free,
and the beer fairy will start delivering 12-packs at her doorstep every
month.  Good beer, of course.  What if, what if, what if.

How is the cel phone reception at your father-in-laws?  Get a data card

for your laptop or get a cel plan that lets you tether the cel phone to
the laptop & use the cel connection for data.  If you get EvDO or EDGE
speed it's about as good as decent DSL and still supports VPN, etc.
Sprint's phone-as-modem plan is $40 a month on top of whatever your cel
minutes cost and it includes unlimited data, legal tethering, and any
other data your cel can work with (streaming audio/video, email, SMS,
browsing, whatever).  It's a complete data plan for your cel device +
your laptop.  I use it with a Treo 700p and because I have it solely for
work usage, work reimburses me for the expense.

$40/month is too expensive for the volume I'll use this for.  Plus all of
the additional equipment costs.  And the employer won't compensate for it, I
already asked.  I guess they assume everyone has broadband nowadays.  I
guess I can be a stinker about it and hope that they'll change their
policy.  It doesn't seem right that they expect me to have this access as
part of my responsibilities and to have to pay for it.

-Dan