Primus WiMax & Free hotspot goodness
So this weekend for some reason (maybe thinking about all the cool things I plan on doing with my home network at my new house?) I got the urge to set up a public Wireless Access Point.
My Primus WiMax modem had been sitting around for a while collecting dust, so I thought since I wasn’t using it, why not let everybody else try it? (The reason I’m not using it? The PCMCIA card for my laptop doesn’t have a good enough signal to pick anything up in my concrete apartment building. Nor at the Second Cup. So it’s basically useless unless I sit in the middle of the street downtown… *sigh*. The desktop receiver works — if I put it near a window. I’m not going to rewire my setup so I can get the 1MBit WiMAX when I have great 5MBit DSL service from TekSavvy…)
I had a spare Linksys WRT54GL lying around, so I put the latest DD-WRT firmware on it, signed up for worldspot.net, and configured it as per the wiki entry.
Worked great! Now people can connect to my AP, and know who to thank for their free Internet. :)
However, when I try and limit their bandwidth via worldspot.net’s interface, my router crashes. :( So I’ll have to think of something else — especially when I do this at my new house, where I don’t have a second ISP and will be sharing my own access… this post may help me, but I’ve had enough for today!
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