Interesting link about a US broadband company's idea

Drakar

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030701/1637233_F.shtml

flav0rflav

I'm not going to just follow a link you happen to put up. Give us more info about it!

FFS.

Serbian

Cut and pasted the most interesting bits about the article:

Speakeasy Allows Customers To Sell Their Own Wireless Broadband
Speakeasy, the DSL ISP famous for (get this) actually being customer friendly, is letting customers sell their own bandwidth.

Now, accepting the fact that the bandwidth they sell you is your bandwidth, they're making it easy to turn around and resell your own bandwidth to your neighbors. You set the price, and they handle the billing. They also provide email addresses and other features like access to the Rhapsody music service. You split the revenue 50/50 with Speakeasy.

While I think most people would probably just as soon let their neighbors use their bandwidth for free, it's very cool to see a company admit that the bandwidth is yours to do as you please

flav0rflav you lazy hoe

irishguy

this is what we need some forward thinking ISP's, but they are cute feckers they leave you connect your neighbors at your cost they dont have to provide tech support or hardware, all they do is billing and they get 50% for doing it, cleaver feckers

Saruman

Thats a little like what some of you do on Irishwan is it not? Someone with a high speed line connected to a node can share it and maybe users connecting pay towards it? Not profit but sharing the costs at least!