Tunnel home through free wireless user groups?

Great article, I've thought about a lot of these things too... the problem is that right now the law prevents use of WUGs for any kind of internet that extends beyond your house or something like that. I guess it would be fair to change that law so that you could at least access your OWN internet back at home, but yeah.
Anyways, still WUG is awesome. I'd advise anybody who's remotely interested, to check to see if there are any active WUG notes near you, and try join - it's cheap, it's uncapped, it's worth it - but it's not internet, it's just a giant wireless LAN: www.wug.za.net
 
okay, other than wan gaming and possible p2p stuff, what are the benefits of a wug?
i've never used one, so i'll take a look at that ^ link.
i like the idea of tunneling. assuming the network can take the additional throughput required.
surely internet costs what it does because of the amount of users and data being transferred?
 
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How is this news worthy? Post this **** up on the forum somewhere and let people discuss different ideas. You don't see rpm posting how cool it would be if everyone in SA got a free pony now do you? Yea sure the ideas have some merit, but seriously NOT news worthy at all. It's better off as a blog post somewhere IMO
 
I love the concept... how could we implement this? Would love not to have have to use 3G on my iPhone and seen as though WiFi seems to be "everywhere" now, it makes sense.
 
hmm. I don't think sharing an internet connection point to point over the WUG is a particularly good idea. Sure its between two locations controlled by you, but still it cuts the WUG license exemption might close. You could probably get away with it if you keep a low profile...or you could write a MyBB article about it.
 
whats the difference between this, and sitting in my house using wi-fi (5.12Ghz public channel) hopping over 3 Access Points to my router (and internet link) situated on a property I own down the road? Using the WUG only makes the hops more. Its still WiFi, its still going across boundaries, and its still using my internet link.

i puke when i think of regulatory ineptitude. i also puke when i think we are paying out our noses for "something that should be dirt cheap if it wasnt run by a bunch of profiteering gluttons".

Alas. If we could unleash the WUG, we will truly bring affordable Internet to the masses. But wait. I see the sharks circling. I also see scuba divers with netbooks, earphones and funny hairstyles pulling in with some sort of intellectual tuna ray.
 
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I thought it would be illegal to provide Internet access across a wireless network without a licence?
 
Techrat said:
I thought it would be illegal to provide Internet access across a wireless network without a licence?
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As far as I understand it, nobody provides you with internet access on a WUG. You use the wireless network OF the WUG to gain access to your OWN internet access point, wherever that may be.
 
Plaasjapie said:
As far as I understand it, nobody provides you with internet access on a WUG. You use the wireless network OF the WUG to gain access to your OWN internet access point, wherever that may be.
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isn't this kind of like a reverse vpn?
 
I have asked the question on the JAWUG site and the reply in no uncertain terms was "no internet over the WUG". I still fail to see why the WUG licence should prevent you from running a VPN server at home to provide secure access to your local network resources. If I pay for my internet access, why should I be limited to accessing it from one physical location ?
 
can barely get decent WiFi speed down my passage let alone across town without incurring extra expense for repeaters etc... then you start talking about central authentication servers and the costs start to climb. Someone might think it is a great hobby to begin with, but soon realizes that offering it for free doesnt cover the costs of your time. And what for? To share some content like movies and series? Local bandwitdth is really cheap, and so is a USB cable. Share the old fashion way or create more local content servers.
 
murraybiscuit said:
isn't this kind of like a reverse vpn?
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No 'reverse' about it. You could do this with a VPN setup if you have access to your home network in some way like via the wug.

You might commonly use a VPN to access a private network via the internet, but you're basically just going to use the WUG to access a private network in this case. Your private network might just happen to have access to the internet.

Most phones wouldn't give you the flexibility for that kind of routing setup though.
 
I am yet to find a way to use an SSH tunnel over a phone (non-rooted android in my case) ... let alone a phone-wide proxy server setting that is applied to all apps running on the phone.
 
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