The Fon deal is that you either flash your own Linksys or buy it pre-configured for a fiver in order to make it work as an access point for the Fon network.
Fon customers (not anonymous passerbys) will identify themselves, log into the Fon network and gain access to your Linksys AP. From there they will VPN into the Fon backbone and access the Internet, this way they don't see your home LAN.
If somebody uses your Fon network to do bad things, he will 1) appear as coming from the Fon network and 2) be identifiable with the same level of confidence you can identify users of other wifi services.
You become a Fon customer either by paying (Aliens) or by sharing your bandwidth (Linuses). Around Madrid (Spain) I already found several Fon APs!
If the security of the whole thing is well designed and implemented I don't see any issue!
As far as I understand this, the Fon network you provide to the public will be accessible by Fon customers only.
Fon customers will identify themselves, gain access to your WiFi AP and VPN from there to the Fon network (eg. they don't see your home LAN).
If they're doing kiddie porn they would be 1) seen coming from the Fon network 2) identifiable with the same level of confidence you can identify any other user of other WiFi services.
You become a Fon customer either by buying access (Aliens) or by sharing your AP (Linuses).
If the security of the whole thing is well designed I don't see mayor issues!
Google's strength is in their good search engine, in their brand and also in their set of very good web-based applications. Very good as in very standard compliant and compatible with any browser, to the point that somebody starts saying it will be less and less relevant which particular OS people use.
How can Microsoft beat Google in this area without stepping on its own feet?
Anyway until the vapourware condenses into something real there's not much to comment on...
I wonder why they used such a high TCP window!! I got a theory... The window should change dynamically but AFAIK this is implemented in a terrible way in W95. If it is the same in NT4.0 the window will be almost static! I think this test machine sends out packets as fast as it can without waiting any acknowledge. This requires a lot of buffer space (a nice way to waste 1 Gig of RAM) and boosts the figures for this particular scenario (one way traffic).
Not actually a real-world situation, in my opinion...
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The Fon deal is that you either flash your own Linksys or buy it pre-configured for a fiver in order to make it work as an access point for the Fon network.
Fon customers (not anonymous passerbys) will identify themselves, log into the Fon network and gain access to your Linksys AP.
From there they will VPN into the Fon backbone and access the Internet, this way they don't see your home LAN.
If somebody uses your Fon network to do bad things, he will 1) appear as coming from the Fon network and 2) be identifiable with the same level of confidence you can identify users of other wifi services.
You become a Fon customer either by paying (Aliens) or by sharing your bandwidth (Linuses).
Around Madrid (Spain) I already found several Fon APs!
If the security of the whole thing is well designed and implemented I don't see any issue!
As far as I understand this, the Fon network you provide to the public will be accessible by Fon customers only.
Fon customers will identify themselves, gain access to your WiFi AP and VPN from there to the Fon network (eg. they don't see your home LAN).
If they're doing kiddie porn they would be 1) seen coming from the Fon network 2) identifiable with the same level of confidence you can identify any other user of other WiFi services.
You become a Fon customer either by buying access (Aliens) or by sharing your AP (Linuses).
If the security of the whole thing is well designed I don't see mayor issues!
Google's strength is in their good search engine, in
their brand and also in their set of very good web-based
applications.
Very good as in very standard compliant and compatible
with any browser, to the point that somebody starts
saying it will be less and less relevant which particular
OS people use.
How can Microsoft beat Google in this area without
stepping on its own feet?
Anyway until the vapourware condenses into something real
there's not much to comment on...
Andrea
I wonder why they used such a high TCP window!!
I got a theory...
The window should change dynamically but AFAIK this is implemented in a terrible way in W95. If it is the same in NT4.0 the window will be almost static!
I think this test machine sends out packets
as fast as it can without waiting any acknowledge.
This requires a lot of buffer space (a nice way to waste 1 Gig of RAM) and boosts the figures for this particular scenario (one way traffic).
Not actually a real-world situation, in my opinion...