Comments on: FrancoFON’s software for la Fonera

By: Donat

Donat — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:28:21 +0000

“most likely incorporate it in the Fonera firmware. Thank you FrancoFon!!!”

8 months ago, nothing happened.. why? when will these functions be available…. or is it much more “unlikely” now ?

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:16:17 +0000

Yes, there are modded firemwares out there with great meash capabilities: Look at http://blogin.it/ to get a first impression.

By: jdawg

jdawg — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:37:59 +0000

Has anyone heard if this feature will be added to the La Fonera?

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:37:34 +0000

Daniel! Will check them out. Thanks!

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 17:15:25 +0000

Hi Henrik,

I am not as enthusiastic as you for meshing, but that does not mean that I am not enthusiastic at all. It all depends on the operating environment. If ADSL/Cable connections are rare meshing is great. But in the UK where we partnered with BT we don´t really need meshing.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:46:32 +0000

@8: I don’t know if this is possible with ponte2/francofon, but it is possible with the FreeWLAN.info Add-ons.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:08:41 +0000

This sounds extremely huge. What if the Fonera router could be bought directly from the FON connection page by any nabour who can see the FONspot. So they pay for example 20€ for the router, maybe 50% of that revenue goes to the original FONspot owner. Now when that nabour receives the FON router, he simply has to plug it in to the electricity and maybe also fix the Fontenna on the window and this way that nabour would eigther get free low bitrate unlimited account on FON or would get a reduction on the prices of his FON passes based on the additionnal revenue generated by that users expansion of the FONspot through this bridge. There could be somekind of exact calculation that would require the nabour to cover an area at a certain distance of the original FONspot. Maybe poiting the FOntenna in another direction might be enough, but preferably, the nabour should for example live at least 50 meters away from the original FONspot.

FON earns more money cause the FONspot gets bigger and stronger. The FONspot originator earns more money cause his bigger FONspot provides him with more revenue, even though bridged FONspots don’t need to provide the same % of revenue to the FONspot originator. The nabour installing the bridge gets cheaper FON passes, maybe generates enough extra FON connections to earn a totally free FON access, eigther limited in bitrate, or unlimited depending on the throttling setup by the FONspot originator. The ISP earns more money also cause their WiFi coverage being bigger, they can claim a larger share from revenue sharing as well as people are more incited to use broadband and WiFi generating more demand for broadband connections.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:42:52 +0000

I think mesh capability would be THE killer application for LaFonera 2.0… No more need of a wired connection between your ISP router and multiple Foneras for a full coverage of all your rooms, no Powerlan Adapters… simply a self organizing mesh cloud of foneras. Even load balancing between multiple foneras with lanside Internet Link could be inplemented to give a better performance in usage hot zones like in Madrid, Berlin or New York, where multiple Fonera signals are overlapping. Instead of a infrastructure mode Fon WLAN could opperate like a cellular provider for mobile phones. No need to scan and switch between radio sites, everything would go smoothly. This would be the best way to fulfil Fon’s motto: Free Wifi, everywhere.

By: vatera blogatis

vatera blogatis — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:48:52 +0000

just for understanding right: does the ponte2-bridge-fonera receive the signal via an encrpyted wep2 (or like that) signal and re-distribute both, a >FON_xxx Signal and ALSO a my_place signal too or only a FON_xxx signal without a my_place signal. that means: am i able to install some sort of “hopping” signals , from fonera.. to fonera… to fonera .. to fonera… (not regarding loss of data-velocity).. am i right?? i really don´t know. this really has not come clear to me

By: Bartali « Dema FON blog

Bartali « Dema FON blog — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 12:29:18 +0000

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