evilrouters.net

Last night while looking through Digg, I came across sharemywifi.com.

“sharemywifi.com connects people with WiFi to people without it!”

Basically, if you have a wide-open access point that you don’t mind others using, you can post it on the web site. Likewise, if you need Internet access in a certain area, you can search on the site to see if anyone is sharing their wireless access. It seems so simple, and it just might work.

I haven’t listed my access point on there just yet. I wouldn’t care if anyone used it, but I’ll wait until I have it properly segmented off from my home servers and workstations and rate-limit it a bit before I open it up. Right now, it’s on the same segment as my home servers and workstations and I don’t want anyone else having access to that. I can, pretty easily, put it on a network segments of its own, however, with a Cisco router in between the two networks. Doing that will allow me to put some ACLs in place to prevent anyone using the wireless from hitting “my” side of the network, and I can do some rate limiting on there as well (perhaps limit the wireless to 1544/128kbps of my 3088/512kbps bandwidth).

I’ll keep sharemywifi.com in mind whenever I’m travelling, as well. Anyone actually using this thing or posted their open AP’s on it yet?