FON: sharing broadband

Just a couple of weeks ago someone was asking me whether it was possible for people to share their spare broadband capacity and whether it was done. I answered that it was certainly done commercially by people like Starbucks [and non commercially by some universities in some places] but I hadn't come across any scheme that made it possible for private individuals to share their surplus capacity and that one of the issues about doing so would be security. Well it looks like someone has come up with a way of dealing with it all ... at the moment the difficulty is that it will only work with a restricted number of routers. However, it could expand. The other issue is the legal one of whether one would invalidate ones broadband contract ... but they're working on that too.
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