Sharing wireless between neighbors

Hi JP Wireless,

I've been wondering about the feasibility and legality of sharing wireless amongst neighbors on my street.

On Beecher where I live there are 6 triple deckers with six units each and three other units with three building each.

From my living room I can see 16 SSID's.

Here are my questions:

*Can I legally share my router?
*I have a Linksys Wireless G 2.4 ghz - How many people can I share this with before It gets slow? Would we need a better router and which one would suggest?
*We have regular cable internet service. Would need the power boost thingy?
*My guess is we might need AP for each building - Does this right?
*Anything else we should consider?

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Lee on January 15, 2011 at 11:07am

I'm currently not sharing my wireless, but I would like to get back into doing it.

The way I was doing it was with a FON router -- http://corp.fon.com/en/products/simpl/

It splits your wireless up into two networks, a private one and a public one. You can control how much of your available bandwidth to allocate to your public network. I believe this is the safest way to do it, as you can keep all of your own computers on a separate network.

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