I’ve been talking to several people, especially bloggers about the possibility of this “open source” project. I’d ask them if they have wifi at home and if they freely share that with their neighbors. Most of those I asked tells me they have some sort of encryption and password protection and do not freely share their bandwidth.
While I agree that the network security is an important issue, I still believe in the idea of “pay it forward”. If enough people who have their internet on 24/7 at their homes and establishments and network it wirelessly, everyone else will benefit from this “open source” scheme. If this idea grows and more and more people will share their wireless internet free, life could be easier. 
Yup, again, I know the repercussions of un-secured networks and all that but I think that ultimately the benefits will outweigh the disadvantages.
So, what do you think?
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i share mine… i have a ewrt running on my linksys routerAP… all that my neighbors have to do is agree to an “acceptable use policy” and tada… free wifi… i’m almost never home during the day, so what i waste of bandwidth i keep telling myself.
i’m part of http://www.personaltelco.net and so i have that as my SSID too.
oh, i do share with my neighbor. he asked one of my sons, and we gave him the password. it doesn’t hurt, even if 5 computers are working at the same time. really, i do not mind.
I would love to share in principle, but I think the security concerns are too great.
It goes both ways.
So, if you go to a cafe and found two Wifi APs — one is free from the next door neighbor and the other one is paid provided by the cafe, would you go and buy prepaid wifi credits instead of using the other one which is free?
This follows the same as logic as the one in #11, that you as a user do not deserve the free wifi and should pay for your own.
I know, im selfish. Who wouldn’t dream about having able to access anywhere for free? But in this country, it will be a very long time till it will be, i think.
Like vance said, how could i possibly share my low bandwidth pool without self-sacrificing? The problem here in this country is that we have costly internet connection plus crappy service which equals to dissatisfaction.
Im not that selfish but nothing in this world is free. So sharing my connection will be a bad idea. I pay for that service, then how could you expect that someone want to share it to others for no charge? I absolutely won’t. If they want Wifi, they should pay their get their own, and importantly, pay their own.