Toronto Hydro Wifi

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 8 18:38:42 UTC 2006


Dave Cramer wrote:
> 
> On 8-Sep-06, at 1:48 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 12:52:23PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>>>       I cannot imagine having 15 minutes of inactivity. Between
>>>       checking mail and newsgroups, my network connection is never
>>>       idle that long.
>>
>> What if I want to SSH to my home machine though?  Their connection
>> wouldn't work at all for any kind of connection inbound to your home
>> network if you use their service as you internet connection.  I guess
>> not having a static IP would be another problem to deal with.
> check out openvpn fairly easy way to get access to your own network from 
> anywhere

That depends on whether they hand out RFC1918 addresses.  If so, you 
won't be able to connect to howe with anything.
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