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Episode: 837
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Title: HPR0837: Juergen Schinker open wireless network
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0837/hpr0837.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 03:16:14
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Hello everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and I'm here alive as OddCamp in UK and I'm
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talking to Jürgen and Jürgen is going to talk to us about OWN, the Open Wireless Death
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work in depth 4.
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So can you tell us a little bit about that and what makes it so special?
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Well it's very special because it's community based and it drives a lot of public access
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points which are open, so no encryption, so it's just open access points and all these
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success points are let's say in a very close range so they can see each other and they
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run the OLLSR as a management demon and this service routes the traffic to the
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success point to the internet so every user who is part of this also has his interconnection
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and he's sharing his interaction with the public so everyone who sees success points
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which you are in close range, you will see it, you can connect to it, they will come
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a tiny pop-up which just tells you that you are on this network because otherwise you
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would not know, they just have to be next and then you are not bothered again, you have
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free internet so all ports open, complete, open it and this is like a shared network
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for the community, yeah it's from the community for the people in depth 4 and Greenwich and
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it's so to say everyone can be part of wants to be, he gets a small router and he can
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so to say put the router on the window to have a good reach for the outside so that everyone
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outside can connect to it, so being a good neighbor basically.
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So the idea would be that if I was in the community I'd have a cable or DSL line and
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then I'd share that line with the community, what do the ISPs think about that?
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Well theoretically you should ask them but basically they don't mind because for them it's
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just traffic and they cannot really see where it comes from, I mean the final IP address
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is always the individual user's IP address which is showing to you so they will think
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it must be come from the user obviously, yeah I'm all but you say to the major critic
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of open Wi-Fi networks or what about kidney porn and how do you reject children and what
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if somebody downloads legal movies over on my network?
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Yeah well I think the latest action against this was a little let's say kind of a throttling
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of the network so the network was throttled down so that you don't have full bandwidth
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of the users you have a certain limits which makes let's say sharing in a high volume
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usage doesn't make it really feasible because it's no fun so it's just let's say like a basic
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feature if you're in the laptop outside you want to quick check your emails or make something
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quicker either you just have access without any fuss so it's just you have it and the other
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big advantage for the user who drives this access point is also a very good point that they
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have a backup in their access so literally if if their interconnection dies or you switch
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ISP or whatever you do you can at least expect three weeks offline and if you want to deal
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with that but with this network so to say if the router boots up and you use the text that
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you don't have in the access it automatically roots your traffic through your OWN access
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point through to the network and therefore outside you so you always have a kind of a say slow
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but you have interconnection which can be very important okay so say I'm living in that
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community and I've got an ISP connection and I want to be a good community member what do
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I need what do I need to do well you just go to the home page which I have to have from my
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Don't worry it'll be in the show notes so you can google for OWN and tap for you and find
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immediately and the guys make every Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. they have wireless
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Wednesday where everyone is divided everyone can come and you get all the details and you
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get the router and 10 as in all the usual technical gossip from the from the guys who drive
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the network and who pays for the is it an additional access point that I that I plug in so can I
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have my own part of my own network and yes you can still give your own but it's more fun to
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switch your own off because this access point is this router which you will get will represent
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two access points one which is hidden so to say this is for you so it's unsrattled so you
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know the name you can connect it anytime you want so you have your own unlimited connection
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and the other one is the public one which is of course banned with throttles right
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now but I mean if the network behaves well it can be also open so this is just a
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kind of configuration of the and who pays for that additional equipment well the router
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let's say if you want to be part of the community of course at one point you have to buy
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the router because you have it I mean we have a router but it's very cheap we talk about 50 quid
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yeah yeah so it's not not a mount we need to and also you don't have to have a router
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you just can also just connect if you want to have a first touch and see how the network
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performance is you just have a laptop you connect to it use it fantastic
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a lot of people do that so I've been thinking about something that for our own
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community is that something that I information on how to set that up would that be available on the
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website yeah sure sure tell you exactly our information which router this is router
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you can buy them for dinner as well so to say they're just flashed with special
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firmware to make them functionality for that network I mean they are kind of
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centrally controlled I mean they are not completely left to the users control so
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they are centrally controlled and to see also how the network evolves and how it just how it grows
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yeah okay fantastic all come start inside so I think we'll cut that short
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