This kind of talk makes me want to build a box which does wifi on one end and something more reliable than cell service on the other, routing between the two. Then I'd just ride the trains all day with it in my bag and sell access to anyone who jumps on.
Think of it as the homeless hotspot thing from SxSW, only brought to the peninsula. One person per train would probably do the trick.
The hardest part is: just how do you get reliable connectivity to your box in order to resell it?
Summary: uses a bunch of different 4G cards from different carriers, large high gain antennas, and link aggregation; to make a single reliable network connection from a bunch of unreliable ones.
Downside: Fills a backpack, is really thrillingly expensive.
Nice! I bet you could make the money back, given sufficient demand (and this is not the first I've heard about sketchy service). Maybe just doing it on the baby bullets daily would get the job done.
I imagine you could probably test the waters by running an open AP with a suitable name and have a small web server behind it which lets people indicate their interest. Ride with it for a few days, wear the name of the network on your clothing, and see what happens.
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This kind of talk makes me want to build a box which does wifi on one end and something more reliable than cell service on the other, routing between the two. Then I'd just ride the trains all day with it in my bag and sell access to anyone who jumps on.
Think of it as the homeless hotspot thing from SxSW, only brought to the peninsula. One person per train would probably do the trick.
The hardest part is: just how do you get reliable connectivity to your box in order to resell it?
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Summary: uses a bunch of different 4G cards from different carriers, large high gain antennas, and link aggregation; to make a single reliable network connection from a bunch of unreliable ones.
Downside: Fills a backpack, is really thrillingly expensive.
Nice! I bet you could make the money back, given sufficient demand (and this is not the first I've heard about sketchy service). Maybe just doing it on the baby bullets daily would get the job done.
I imagine you could probably test the waters by running an open AP with a suitable name and have a small web server behind it which lets people indicate their interest. Ride with it for a few days, wear the name of the network on your clothing, and see what happens.