Case Study 2 - GUERILLA WI-FI HELPS TO BRIDGE THE DIVIDE By: Felizardo E. Basilla Jr

1. Should Internet providers be pressured to allow customers to share their connections with “nonpaying” customers?

               

A:     No! Internet providers should not pressure customers to share with nonpaying customers their connection; why? Because from the first place those customers are paying for their connection. But they can share it with others whom they know or to whom they gave the security, because I believe that this product that Meraki Networks. Inc., is/are providing also security measures with the user or to the owner of the gadget. And another one this meraki router that will allow connection of meraki to miraki should be the one to provide internet connection that would benefit their user. But this kind of thing would make the corporation and businesses of internet connections to doom.

2. Would you share your connection with a total stranger even if it meant that you would sometimes experience a slowdown to your connection speed?

A:      Well, in terms of internet connectivity. The owner of the device should only allow the minimum or maximum capacity according to the estimated number of users that would make his /her connection, be sufficient for him and for the users whom he allowed. This will be provided by right and appropriate networking of the connections. As what stated in the article, that it can accommodate up to fifty users, so if your internet connection can only allow 10 – 20 users or else it will be slow, so I believe the owner can manipulate the security and make the total user up to only 10 - 20 users.

3. How are the digital divide and computer literacy related?

A:    Computer usability is now a subject in elementary to JR high school in the Philippine education perspective. So, when students reach their SR high school they will be computer literate or earlier. While, digital divide was providing low-cost computers to children who could otherwise not afford to buy them. So how are these related, it was related in a way that the child that was given a single computer for him/her to be use, should know how to work with such gadget and how to take good care of it by proper using that will be provided by being computer literate. Because I do believe that having only digital divide would be a crazy thing, if the child who was given a device don not know how to work with it, it would only be a waste of time and money. So to reduce this waste, computer literacy would play a vital role.