Re: Free WiFi was "Camping" at Wal-Mart

"Bob Giddings" <bobg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If nothing's missing, what has been stolen?

Data throughput, for one thing: each connection to the 'Net can operate at
only 1 speed - what specific speed is a variable - and carry only a specific
volume of data.

If a given connection has, for example, a throughput of 125Kilobytes then
that amount is shared by all connected machines and for every byte
transmitted/received by 1 machine the volume of data transmission/reception
is reduced for the rest. In this example, 2 machines operating concurrently
could be limited to 62.5 KB - a decrease which may well be noticed - while a
third concurrent machine would bring the throughput down to less than 42 KB.

Given that the primary reason for setting up a WiFi network in the first
place is to simplify the task of interconnecting multiple machines, the
question of just *how many* machines are already on the network - both wired
and wireless - will determine the dollar value of the throughput loss.
[Hourly Rate/(# homeowner machines + # "squatters")= hourly loss].



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