Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: wifi in common house

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

Our CH has password-protected wifi - the adult residents know the password,
and it's up to parents whether to share it with their kids. Also, our homes
are individually hard-wired to a community-wide T1 line at a pretty low
cost - it just doubled to $10/month because the T1 team wants to purchase
some hardware this year. A number of residents work remotely and totally
depend on having a stable, well-functioning internet connection to be able
to work from their homes.
   Muriel at Shadowlake Village, Blacksburg, VA

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Sharon Villines <sharon [at] 
sharonvillines.com>
wrote:

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> > On Jan 12, 2015, at 12:16 PM, dlbehrens [at] comcast.net wrote:
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> > Have you felt you needed to get insurance in case of misuse or hacking?
>
> Why would the community be liable for this? It would be just like anyone's
> personal connection.
>
> We once had a problem with an illegal download of Friday Night Lights. A
> warning to the community and it stopped. An inside job. We do have a guest
> (no password) wifi in the CH.
>
> > Have you felt you needed parental controls?
>
> The controls go on the device being used to access the internet, not on
> the wifi or a wired connection.
>
> > Any other things we should think about regarding wifi - pitfalls of one
> sort or another?
>
> Our whole community is on the same service. Our only  problem has been a
> sense of helplessness when the tech people are not in town or don't know
> there is a problem. Although one tech person called in from a mountain and
> walked his back up people through the process.
>
> Another is delaying too long in upgrading the capacity because more and
> more people are streaming and gaming.
>
> Instead of asking people to limit usage (unenforceable and creates
> suspicions) we have chosen to upgrade service and increase capacity when
> needed.
>
> 1. The cost for two business class modems is very far below what we would
> each pay individually for residential service.
> 2. It is faster than each household could pay for alone, and we have
> business service so we get better and faster service that the residential
> service.
>
> Sharon
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> Sharon Villines
> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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