Canadian co-op forms own ISP

[Mr Kleen]

Sticking it to l'homme: Canadian co-op forms own ISP

Not your father's ISP

Some ISPs simply discourage end users from offering WiFi connections to neighbors; most explicitly rule it out in their terms of service. But a small Canadian ISP called Wireless Nomad actually requires it.

Nomad does things a little differently. The company is subscriber-owned, volunteer-run, and open-source friendly. It offers a neutral Internet connection with no bandwidth caps or throttling, and it makes a point of creating wireless access points at the end of each DSL connection that can be used, for free, by the public. Bell Canada this is not.

Full Ars Technica article

[complacent]

Awesome.


(every agency in three countries will be watching the entire address allocation)