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Have any of you tried setting up a for pay hotspot/ WISP to make some money from providing WIFI?
I wasn't sure where to post this, I hope it's the right forum.
I've got a friend with a 20 unit trailer park set up, and I was talking to him about setting up a wifi hotspot to make a little extra money on the side.
http://www.sputnik.com/support/faq/
sputnick is one option.
Then, as we all do, I started thinking big and thought why not just set up my own wireless ISP for the area around my properties?
This is what gave me the idea for the WISP
http://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/2fts...
Has anyone done anything similar?
If this is in the wrong section, I can remove and repost it, or feel free to move it if you can.
Thanks.
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Be careful looking at supplying Wi-Fi as a source of income. The signal is moving towards being a free commodity. More and more people consider the Internet as a right and not a privilege.
I think a better play is t find ways to make a little money renting appliances that use Wi-Fi.
It's a way to sell Levy jeans to the miners and NOT mining yourself - at least that's the direction I'm going as the Internet of Things takes off.