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EFF Lists Wi-Fi-Friendly ISPs

trifster writes "It appears that *some* ISPs encourage Wi-Fi hotspots from users connections. Cnet News.com has the article here." The list itself is on the EFF's site. Most of the ISPs with policies against wireless NATing seem to turn a blind eye to it most of the time anyhow, though.

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  1. For the acronym impaired by Scoria · · Score: 4, Informative

    In no particular order:

    Wi-Fi - IEEE 802.11b compliant products

    IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

    EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization dedicated to preserving online rights

    NAT - Network Address Translation, typically used to provide Internet address for a local area network while using only one external IP address

    ISP - Internet Service Provider, an organization who provides access to the Internet

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