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This is the year in which Europe will either fall apart or emerged stronger. I give it 75% that it emerges as a stronger union but the risk of collapse is still there. Germany has the key to solve the problem because of the size of its economy, its saving rate and its export volume. Germany has to decide on whether it continues to transfer some of its wealth in order to create markets for its exports or it let’s Europe fall apart and ends up with an overvalued currency and deteriorated markets. Already today it started paying negative interest rates which is a prelude in my view to a huge rise in the DM should it be born again. Tough choice. I think Germany can actually both save Europe and make money by buying underpriced Italian and Spanish bonds and selling them after stabilization. It can do what the FED did with many financial institutions, make a profit by providing much needed liquidity at a critical time.
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Posted by Hakan Tabor - November 15, 2006 10:02 pm - #
Hi Martin,
Although it’s nice to introduce something new, it’s not about who introduces it first, it’s about usability and style, performance and stability.
I love fon (I actually applied for a job at your Madrid offices a couple of days ago!) and I know for sure the Liberator is going to look fabolous and at least 3 times smaller
Greetings,
H. Tabor
Posted by tiberio - November 16, 2006 12:11 am - #
Hola,
Yes it is a very good router. I think that is the Asus WL-600g . I’ve read this news few months ago… (2006-07-25) so it is quiet old news but the stuff and the idea is still new on the market.
Posted by Hans-Peter Bock - November 16, 2006 9:24 am - #
Hello Martin,
will the FON Liberator have a RJ45 port for an internal network? Just like the WRT-54g?
If it will not have that, it will be uselesse for me, since I still have computers at home, that I want to have connected by wire.
Small size of the Liberator does not matter for me. I would love the FON Liberator to have space and connectors to mount a cheap 3,5″ hard drive into it! I do not like to have an extra case with an extra power supply to attach a USB hard drive to a tiny little FON Liberator.
Best regards, Hans-Peter
Posted by Bernard Leung - November 16, 2006 5:15 pm - #
Martin,
How about do a testing on the phone of “Linksys” + “Yahoo! Messenger”
CIT3102?
thx
Posted by Jordi Sabaté - November 17, 2006 10:56 am - #
Hi Hans-Peter,
Definitely, the Liberator will have the extra RJ45 LAN port for your wired PCs, agry with you is a must! Regarding size, we are making it small because it can be used with USB FLASH Dongles that now have sizes from 2 to 10Gb, for some Foneros this is a great advantage because with a small Liberator and with just a Dongle they can have real NAS substitute, pretty cool.
Posted by me - November 18, 2006 10:45 pm - #
It’s the ASUS WL 700G give by Fon France to Martin
In France, they aren’t very happy because now they can’t play with it^^
The Fon Liberator will be a Fonera with a USB port to connect an external USB hard drive.
Posted by steven murphy - February 26, 2007 1:05 am - #
run a squid proxy off the hard drive as well, or some other proxy server, help speed up page loads and repetitive downloads.
Posted by Marco - July 29, 2007 6:23 pm - #
you say, we will enter the market in january 2007… but.. nothing heared any more about fonera 2.0…. mysterious..
Posted by Martín Varsavsky - July 30, 2007 3:44 am - #
Marco, We are working on it!