5 Cool Wireless Reseach Projects

Bob B writes "Including an effort by MIT researchers to exploit dense urban networks of existing Wi-Fi access points to create municipal wireless networks rather than relying on EarthLink and cities to fund and build such wireless projects. Secure tunneling is the secret sauce for making it work and not making wireless AP owners liable for miscreants who might use the bandwidth, the researchers say."

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Re:ISP EULAs

[Anonymous Coward]

http://itsmeusvita.blogspot.com/2007/03/legal-problems-with-municipal-wireless.html

http://itsmeusvita.blogspot.com/2006/12/is-it-illegal-to-use-someones-open-wifi.html

FON wireless

[subitophoto]

Sharing wireless look what these guys have done. http://www.fon.com/en/

Re:FON wireless

[sciurus0]

For a noncommercial version, try coova. They release firmware based on OpenWRT that's makes running a hotspot relatively easy. More importantly, they run a service called AAA, which I think is basically a public RADIUS server. Set any wifi router that supports WPA/WPA2 Enterprise to use it and anyone with a coova.org account can log in. It even supports OpenID!