From: Greg Merritt (gmerritt@uclink.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 06 2002 - 11:14:22 PDT
At 10:45 AM -0700 6/6/02, Michael O'Hare wrote:
>A little clarification about Ipass: this is an access-only system;
>you don't get an email address, storage space, or any other ISP
>services, just a connection with a local phone number to the
>internet through which you can get your UC or other ISP email, surf,
>etc. as though you were dialed up at home. Connect prices range
>from $2.40/hr in Europe to $12 in out-of-the-way places.
Right, that's so. iPass servers authenticate back through
your local ISP, confirming your "regular" login/password to allow you
to connect.
iPass is basically a go-between that lets you access
iPass-associated ISPs around the world for connectivity, but
authenticate via your home ISP (since the remote ISP doesn't really
"know" you as their customer). iPass handles the authentication (it
checks w/ your home ISP to let the remote ISP know that you should be
allowed to connect), and then generates call records and billing
information which are then passed back to your local ISP.
-Greg
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