The thought accured to me to open up my wi-fi for anyone to use, but have it setup so my computers get highest priority.
Ideally, the connections that get the "priority handling" are the ones that are connected securely via vpn connections. The freeloaders would not have a secure connection, but would be able to get free net that would slow down when ever I got on.
I assume it would have to run on a seperate linux machine, to do the vpn'ing and packet priority-izing, unless your router is hackable (like the Linksys WRT54G).
It would seem this is good for everyone, more open access points is good for roaming people, and I don't have to sacrifice security or performance. If this was brain dead easy to setup maybe it would get wide spread use.
Is there any projects already doing something like this? Any one interested in starting it up?