New Solution For ISPs Makes Home Wi-Fi Network Accessible From Anywhere

[theJesus]

If you are really paranoid you can disable remote LAN access, in which case you only get Internet access when mobile. All this is configurable in the firmware images you can download from our website.

Oh, I like that.

 

[Steevo]

Have we forgotten about the lowest IP address and the ability to hijack using available equipment, and man in the middle.


This same idea is how we receive wireless internet with Ubiquiti "bullet" P2P systems with VPN enabled, and most new smart devices support VPN, with their own authentication and encryption setup that seems more secure than WPA/WPA2 (as just an example, however once at the terminating point you can create wifi access points.)

New package for a product, and it seems to be an alternate to using cloud storage whcih already has a foot hold and is a growing market.


Just the question is it cheaper to transmit data twice or more and buy more new hardware, or store data and build software?

 

[D007]

Yea people are definitely misunderstanding this..
I think it's a great idea, been hoping to see this for a long time now..

PS: Since when was anyones internet "secure"? lol..

 

[dorsetknob]

I work for Anyfi Networks.

The VPN tunnel carries raw Wi-Fi frames from the visited Wi-Fi router to the home Wi-Fi router. The visited router only acts as an antenna - no traffic is ever terminated there. You can think of the VPN tunnel as a very long antenna cable connecting new antennas to the home router on demand. The visiting user can never access your LAN, your encrypted Wi-Fi or use your IP address on the web.

As a visiting user you will get a public IP address from your home so no one else will get the blame for anything you do on the Internet. The WPA encryption goes all the way from your client device to your home so the owner of the visited router cannot eavesdrop on your data. From the client device point of view, you are at home.

The PR is primarily geared towards ISPs, but the technology as such is available to anyone. If you are comfortable with OpenWrt you can download firmware from http://anyfi.net/getit/firmware for popular consumer Wi-Fi routers and try it out yourself. There is also an FAQ http://anyfi.net/faq.

BTW, "residential gateway" is ISP lingo for the modem/router installed in the subscriber's home.

you still avoided answering my questions on legal liability and bandwidth usage
there is nothing said about the bandwidth usage on the hosting wi fi modem/router installed in the subscriber's home which a guest is accessing who ends up paying that usage bill and how would it affect my isp bandwidth usage and download capping

Important information for potential Host

 

[jatech]

you still avoided answering my questions on legal liability and bandwidth usage
there is nothing said about the bandwidth usage on the hosting wi fi modem/router installed in the subscriber's home which a guest is accessing who ends up paying that usage bill and how would it affect my isp bandwidth usage and download capping

Important information for potential Host

You will never be legally liable for what a visiting user does on the Internet since that traffic is not terminated in your home. When the ISP traces the visiting user's IP address they will get the visitors own IP, not yours.

For your other questions please see the FAQ http://anyfi.net/faq.

 

[dorsetknob]

Read the FAQ
""Anyfi.net software carefully and constantly measures and prioritizes both bandwidth and spectrum use. Whenever there is a risk that the primary function of the access point (e.g. to provide home Wi-Fi to a residential subscriber) may be impacted by a visiting user the software will automatically throttle the visitor to prevent such impact. We call it spectrum aware traffic prioritization and it's very important, especially when the visitor has a poor radio link and may otherwise consume a lot of spectrum. ""

So they are using my bandwidth and i would be paying for their use of my Bandwidth
with no compensation for my costs

Nice of you to dodge answering my question by referring me to the faq
This Software will never be installed on any equipment i own and i would actively disuade anyone i know from using it or any equipment its installed in

"This Software Steals from the Residential gateway owner"

 

[zAAm]

As a computer and electronic engineer, I think this is actually a very cool technology. It plays into the whole new cognitive radio paradigm.

I do however understand the problems inherent in that. Most notably the fact that the raw 802.11 frames must travel to the "guest" router in some way - presumably the user's internet connection. Which, due to them being encapsulated in UDP, will be seen by the user's ISP as normal internet traffic - incurring a cost for the PU.

Also, I do not know the exact capabilities of current routers to do spectrum sensing, but I hope the de-prioritizing algorithm is sufficient to ensure the PU's spectrum isn't occupied entirely by SU traffic. That will be disastrous.

Will need to look into the docs to get a full idea of the technology though.

EDIT: Seems the bandwidth issue is resolved the moment SPs buy into this since they can't install anyfi software on their routers unless they implement a service based cost model instead of a data based one.

 

[theJesus]

EDIT: Seems the bandwidth issue is resolved the moment SPs buy into this since they can't install anyfi software on their routers unless they implement a service based cost model instead of a data based one.

Awesome! I'm in favor of just about anything that gets ISPs to stay away from data-based costs.

 

[zAAm]

Awesome! I'm in favor of just about anything that gets ISPs to stay away from data-based costs.

I'm pretty sure the die-hard "pay for data" SPs will just ignore this product and continue with their escapades...

Like all of the SPs here in South Africa...