Re: [PLUG] PLUG Wireless/ Co-op?

[Kevin Brosius <kbrosius@kns.com>]

Noah silva wrote:
> 
> Before they shut down, they started crippling the network in phases, they
> couldn't just break contracts with people (like XO does :P), so they just
> stopped offering services on new service contracts.
> 
> a.) everything worked
> b.) disabled peer-to-peer routing for modems made or subscribed after a
> certain date.
> c.) tried to disable even local peer-to-peer connections for modems made
> after a certain date by sabataging the name servers.
> d.) I heard they were going to labotomize the BIOS in the newer modems at
> some point to disable the peer to peer mode entirely.
> 
> The reasoning?:
> a.) Most people wanted internet, they weren't going to support private
> networks anymore - and you had to buy internet access now.
> b.) The hardware cost of the modems is supposedly above $500 each, and
> they sold them for $100, counting on people signing up for service.  They
> didn't want people buying 20 of them at $100 each and making a private
> network they would never recover their losses from. (hence C above).
> 
> I wonder why they just didn't sell them like cell phones:
> $100 with service.
> $600 without.
> 
> They would have had more happy customers that way.  Oh well, all you have
> to di is change the network number on the modems to fix D from above (or,
> in modem emulation mode, connect them beforethe dialing one registers with
> the nameserver).

Really?  How do you change the network number?  Do you have additional
documentation outside the GS modem manual?  I'd be interested in
anything you can share.

-- 
Kevin Brosius

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