Phil Rae

London, UK

Senior Software Engineer

Sometimes people like to share their Internet to passers-by... however, there's no real safe way to do that - either you're open to anyone, or else your locked down to either an encryption or a MAC address list.

How about the implementation of a half-way deal? The owners of the wifi can offer out a limited bandwidth so casual piggy-backers can check their emails, surf the web, user VOIP, however not allow them to use P2P, BBC iPlayer, etc.

Perhaps then the likes or decent mobile browsing could take-off, creating a true wifi cell network, away from the charges/limits of 3G and the threat of mis-use to the wifi owners.

All it should take is some funky router firmware to become standard.