BigFoot HotSpot by Everwave
P.O. Box 11657
Aspen, Colorado 81612
Tel.970.920.9600
info@everwave.com
24 Hour Service Phone Number: 866.497.5377
Why not offer HotSpot services for Free?
Offering free HotSpot service to your customers sounds like a good
idea. For the cost of some off the shelf equipment and a monthly
Internet service you can become a HotSpot provider. This sounds good
until you realize what your new service becomes.
Your HotSpot service will be available for anybody that can pickup
your signal inside or outside of your business, even people that
are not your customer. You will have no accountability or security
over your access point when you don't know who is really using it.
There is little value associated with a free service. Paying customers
will realize the value and their computer security that comes with
a professionally operated service. Did you know that standard, off
the shelf wireless access points offer little or no security for
the users that connect to it? You could be putting your paying customers
at risk to hackers by doing it yourself with the wrong wireless access
point equipment.
Imagine, it's 20 years ago when there were no cell phones and a
convenience store owner installs free public pay-phones* in the front
of their store. Free public phones don't make sense, either.
Hackers and high-tech geeks go war-driving. That's right, war-driving.
It's such a popular idea that there is a name for it. War-driving
is when a hacker uses free software, a portable computer and a cheap
high-gain antennae on the top of a car and drives around looking
for unsecured wireless networks that they can gain access to. Once
they find them, they tell their friends, some even post the location
on the Internet.
We install and manage a HotSpot system that adds value and security
for your business.
*We know, "free public
pay-phones" is an oxymoron but
there is no such term in the English language that we could use for
such an idea. The idea of a business installing something that costs
a lot of money, that is a value added service which could be used
for profit, yet is given away to anybody that wants it is just absurd.
Thus, we have all heard of "public pay-phones" but not "public
free-phones."
