On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:44:10 +0000, Larry <noone@home.com> wrote in
<Xns9A458C604CE20noonehomecom@208.49.80.253>:

>"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote in
>news:47B5CB8A.5010406@comcast.net:
>
>> Why not? It COSTS to create and maintain a network. It costs more to
>> connect such a network to the internet in such a way as to provide
>> decent performance for multiple users: Cisco Router or equivalent,
>> firewall, N port switch where N is at least the number of rooms, T1 or
>> T3 service. . . .
>
>The "system" I set up in the restaurant was a cable modem hooked to a
>Linksys wifi router I got from a thrift shop for $10. Way bigshot system.
>256 users can share but there's only about 20 seats in the whole place.
>We're not downloading from usenet, like at home, so it works great for all
>and he already had the cable running for himself and his credit card
>machine, so the extra cost was $10. I was referring to free wifi at
>RESTAURANTS, not the Waldorf-Astoria.
>
>Oh, I forgot, we bought an ethernet cable....add $15 because we paid
>retail.

Which will be great until some serious problem occurs, with the
inevitable backlash.

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