<p>First off, at nycresistor we have an open access point currently. However, we have had passwords in the past. In our rather condensed urban sprawl the odds of some geographic neighbor using our network is fairly high. And as a result the continuing odds of abuse of that resource are high.</p>
<p>We used passwords because of a situation in which a neighbor was eating up all the traffic and causing many people in the space issues.</p>
<p>Nyc has terrible internet service in general exacerbating the issue is just plain not cool.</p>
<p>But in regards to your radius idea, I would like to point out the chaosvpn / agora link initiative being worked on by CCC members, nycresistor, psone, and more. I know that there has been talk of using the certs we use on the mesh vpn such that they would be radius compliant.</p>
<p>Also we are working on foneros, and openwrt images to meet our shared hackerspace networking needs.</p>
<p>-Matt</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 19, 2010 1:35 PM, "john arclight" <<a href="mailto:arclight@gmail.com">arclight@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>The "Eduroam" concept seems like a great idea if it gets everyone in<br>
your network automatic free roaming on other networks. Otherwise, I'm<br>
more in favor of open access. We have a simple WEP key which is always<br>
written on the whiteboard and never changes. We used to be completely<br>
open, until we noticed that 2 local business were using bandwidth 24/7<br>
and didn't want to kick in.<br>
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Arclight<br>
</font><p><font color="#500050"><br>On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Jason Bailey <<a href="mailto:jason@hive13.org">jason@hive13.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Hive13 in Cincinnati als...</font></p></blockquote></p>