I have occasionally been tempted to set up a guest network with a speed limit that is configured to go out over TOR. But it’s a bunch of work for zero gain so I never get around to it.
That’s a good measure. Family goes into the guest WLAN wich is in its own VLAN so I don’t have to deal with potential malware or dodgy Chinese phones in my own internal network.
I reason like this -
Open WiFi = open door policy - you let anyone with physical proximity into your home - if your house burns down and you simply watched - how would you act?
So, I have never accepted the “excuse” - however -
I can’t remember, but there was an initiative long time ago, that you could sign up for getting a “free” wifi router, and with an account - you could connect to a similar router - somewhere else in the world - (three-letter-thing I believe, enjoyable little router to hack). What I am getting at, in relations to either TOR exit nodes or decentralized VPNs in one form or another is - it’s a matter of what kind of control you are willing to grant or give up. It’s also what kind of agreement you have with your ISP.
However, purpose of the said solution you grant access to your connection with your ISP is something hopefully many weight in…
Where one would sign up for oddball solutions, would be … a good question ;).
Pretty sure you’re talking about this.
Most ISPs automatically implement something like it now. Where if you use their router it automatically stands up a separate hotspot network that other customers of the ISP can use to get online.
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Yes - FON! Thanks ;). That functionality is not big here in Sweden tho from the ISP side.
I only remember FON because it was the genesis of the Wifi Pineapple. 
I always forget to clarify that my comments have a US bent to them. Not sure how common the ISP hotspot is in the rest of the world. Even though you can turn it off in the ISP provided equipment, the majority of people have probably never considered how it works or that it’s running on their connection, so it provides a built in useable public wifi for the ISP.
Recently I was surprised to find that one of the ISPs actually provides a map of these hotspots that they deploy, so you could actually see what houses had it turned on.
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I remember that too, the FON was cheaper, so I got that first, still have I think my first gen pineapple and is it … 3rd gen perhaps still here somewhere.
I think we have one provider, and they might have it as an optional feature only in like major cities - kinda like a “passport” feature, only for their own customers. I think it might be more common down south in Europe - Sweden is odd ;).
That’s the way it works here. I don’t believe you can use the ISP hotspot unless you’re an ISP customer. I’ve never used their equipment nor do I have any interest in public hotspots so I haven’t particularly investigated it.
Would you / have you used it?
One of our providers, BT in the UK, let’s their customers have an almost “open” WiFi for other BT users.
IIRC, it runs a seperate network from the subscribers router, and does not charge the line owner for any charges, does not use their bandwitch allocation, and does not use their IP.
Users do need to authenticate, so activity is accounted for, and does not go against the line