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There's no way ISPs in the US will allow this.

Well, there is Comcast's program to deploy dual-WiFi APs. One side for the subscriber, one side for Comcast to use as it sees fit (public hotspot being a declared use):

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/06/comcas...

so Comcast is going to be paying me for the use of my facilities to host its plant cool - just like if i have a telegraph pole on my land I get rent.

It doesn't hurt to dream. Normally ;) BTW, this type of thing might be or become more widespread than I initially thought: http://www.cablewifi.com/

It would be hard for them to prevent it, to them it would look like it's just another computer on the wifi.

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