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Ngan —

This is how the internet should be...FREE!!! Comcast will probably offer a huge discount to the Mt. View residents who call in to cancel their service

Eric —

An update a few hours later...

For those hoping the Mountain View wireless network will allow you to SSH/telnet into the computers on your network, or better yet allow your computers to host your web site, I have good news and bad news.

The good news is the meshed wireless routers hand out a routable network address. This would, in theory, allow you to set port forwarding for the devices within your home network, forwarding the correct ports to the correct computers (eg. port 80 HTTP to your web server).

In fact, from a computer external to Mountain View's network, I can traceroute my wireless modem's IP address all the way down to the meshed wireless router just on the outside of my apartment.

The bad news is, that meshed wireless router chooses to NOT forward the packet on to my wireless modem.

There is no technical reason why it can't. Probably, Google has purposefully disabled the router from doing so.

I can certainly understand why: people with their own web sites tend to hog way too much bandwidth and slow down the network for everyone.

However, I'm betting that at some point Google will offer a premium service. The premium service, I bet, will include a static IP address for your wireless modem, and a flip of the switch on the meshed wireless router that'll allow it to pass packets through to your wireless modem.

For a fee, of course.

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