Re: 2wire's irresponsible new product

It certainly does sound like this is bad news for everybody's shared bandwidth.  That being the case, what should we do about it?  Obviously 2wire has already made n (where n is very large) of these APs.  Would contacting the company and pointing out the ill-effects of their product on everybody's wireless networks (i.e. their own customers) do any good?

----- Original Message -----
From: David Young <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 02:25:06 -0600
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Cu-wireless] 2wire's irresponsible new product

> More power means ... less bandwidth for everybody! These 400mW home APs
> could be bad news.
> 
> Dave
> 
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> From: John Foust <[email protected]>
> Subject: [BAWUG] 2Wire and SBC interference?
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 16:08:05 -0600
> 
> 
> I'm a mini-WISP in a small town in the Midwest.
> I was tracking down some interference on a Cisco AP-352
> today.  It's incapacitated by deauthentication messages:
> the log shows "2004/01/19 09:37:10 (Info): Deauthentication 
> from 00:d0:9e:f8:8f:b1, reason "Not Associated", many 
> per second.  That mystery MAC isn't any of mine.  
> 
> The wired side is flooded with LLC packets from the AP with 
> a destination of 01:40:96:ff:ff:00.  The AP is dropping 
> 30% of ping packets sent to it.
> 
> So I did a little wardriving to try to find the mystery MAC.
> Lookup says it's a 2Wire device.  Sure enough, I find not
> one but four APs in the neighborhood "2WIRE268" "2WIRE837" 
> "2WIRE870" "2WIRE877", all on default channel 6, where
> none were a few months ago.
> 
> Well, here's why they're showing up:
> http://www.2wire.com/pr/pr12022003.html
> 
> SBC recently rolled out DSL in my town.  They offered a 
> rebate or a wireless AP / firewall.  That press release above
> says these home APs are up to 400 mW each, and that one
> of 2Wire's exclusive distributors is SBC.  
> 
> It's their right to sell DSL, of course, but now they're
> also polluting the 2.4 Ghz spectrum.  These home APs were
> lighting up the neighborhood with more power than any
> of the WISPs in town.
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out what to reset on the AP-352
> to turn off this LLC problem.  I tried adding that MAC to
> the denied list, but it only made it worse as the AP slowed
> down even more, it seemed.
> 
> - John
> 
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