OT: Bezeq's wireless sharing scheme

[Omer Zak]

One possible solution is to daisy chain together two routers.

One router will be connected directly to Bezeq, and will be under their
control and be configured by them.
The other router will be connected to the above router.  It will be
configured by you, get its DHCP from the first router, and apply its own
firewall rules.
The rest of your home network will be connected to the second router.

Nowadays, a router costs few hundred NIS, so I think that the cost is
reasonabe relative to the monthly cost of NGN (and the cost of cellular
Internet access when you don't have access to other people's routers).

--- Omer
P.S.: did anyone already make his home network IPv6-ready (using an IPv6
tunnelling service, if necessary)?


On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 14:57 +0300, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please excuse the off-topic post but I figured someone here would probably 
> know.
> 
> We have a Bezeq NGN router.  Bezeq now has a scheme (the name of which I 
> can't remember) where you can sacrifice a meg of your bandwidth for use by 
> other Bezeq customers in exchange for said access to other people's 
> routers all over the country.  I've also read that they're trialing access 
> to an international program of wireless access that usually costs you 
> money (I believe it's called iPass).  This trial is currently set to run 
> till the end of October but I'm hopeful they'll extend it.
> 
> Now at least with our NGN router, the configuration of our Internet access 
> has had to be done remotely.  I have not managed to find the settings 
> which enables our Internet conection to work, either before or after 
> they've configured it, which already makes me a bit uncomfortable.
> 
> I'm quite keen on this program in principle, as it appeals to my socialist 
> tendancies.
> 
> My only concern is whether the process which configures our router for 
> this program (which is also performed remotely) will undo the many local 
> customisations I've made for our local network.  Do they just adjust the 
> relevant settings or do they shove in a configuration file that replaces 
> the previous one and knocks out any local customisations in the process?
> 
> Since I figured someone here is likely to have already done this, I was 
> hoping someone here could tell me.
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