On 25/06/2020 19.04, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Technically, it would be perfectly possible for a building to share an internet connection with a bunch of neighbours, sharing the cost and the infra. You would need one VLAN per home, I think, isolating each home from others.
Not technically necessary, but for privacy.
The problem would be that the Telco companies hate this (and their local laws protecting them). You can not share a home connection, you would have to hire some other type of connection, if they have it.
I think that is the least of the issues. Many countries have telecommunications legislation that simply forbid the sharing of a connection. For instance, it is a problem for law enforcement:
"someone did illegal downloads. Who was it - household A or household B?"
In Spain people have won in court demanding the accuser to show proof of what person did the download. It is not enough to point at the router.
In fact, there are villages in Spain where all neighbours share a single WiFi setup done by the council, gratis (ah, socialism! ;-p). They do this because the Telcos refuse to do home connections or they ask impossible prices. Possibly, they don't even have fixed phones at the houses.
s/socialism/poorly instrumented telco liberalisation/
It is simply not economical for the telco to provide some phones at a village in the middle of nowhere. The council, on the other hand, has the oomph to buy one large enough connection at whatever cost, then share it. There were legal problems initially, but I think they found a way. There is a fund from the EU for it. <https://cincodias.elpais.com/cincodias/2019/09/18/companias/1568818711_540735.html> Name "WiFi4EU". <https://wifi4eu.ec.europa.eu/#/home> No wikipedia article :-? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)