Start-up helps sell access to your WLAN

08/03/2004 Written by Richard Shim -Staff Writer, CNET News.com

LinSpot announced on Wednes­day it is offer­ing free soft­ware that allows indi­vid­u­als to sell access to their own wire­less local area net­work. The com­pany will han­dle the billing, and the soft­ware, LinSpot 1.0, offers encryp­tion fea­tures. The soft­ware runs on the Mac OS X oper­at­ing sys­tem and can work with any access point.Lin­Soft is devel­op­ing ver­sions of the soft­ware for the Win­dows and Linux oper­at­ing systems.

Access to the wire­less net­work costs $2.50 for an hour and $25 for a month. LinSpot will charge a 15 per­cent fee for its ser­vices. Lin­Soft is a trade­mark of Bion­trix, but it is work­ing to incor­po­rate into an inde­pen­dent com­pany soon, accord­ing to a state­ment. Start-​up Jolt­age employed a sim­i­lar busi­ness model before shut­ter­ing oper­a­tions in early 2003.

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