Comments on: Our Own Router: La Fonera

By: Mariusz

Mariusz — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:45:55 +0000

This concept looks great, what I wonder is that you already made La Fontenna ( Indor use ) maybe this one will be good idea for any outside use ? Think about sometnig what will works just with power suply like Signal Repeter – Signal Radge Extender and doesnt have to be conected to signal cable. It can works like repeter / extender of all FON signal in his area

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 13:08:46 +0000

Dear Martin,

just found this post.
The second picture suggests, that Fon will finally switch to a meshing mode?
Is my interpretation of this correct?

If Fon finally would use meshing, i’d immediately contact the town-officials (about 150.000 people town) and let them support (=finance) a town-wide project (they did it before with an open-source project, unfortunately the organizer of the project “retired”, before it was completed). Another project with commercial support (FON) would probably be much easier to “sell them”.

best,

Dave

By: moufid

moufid — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:06:41 +0000

Hi Martin!

I just discovered this post which responds to the need I was looking for : the “superbill”. Can I have more information about it. Did something was developped for people like me who wants to commercialize your wifi concept for coffes, tea saloon…

Keep hearing from you!

By: eddie tam

eddie tam — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 06:30:30 +0000

In the US especially, you will find that a lot of housing developement communities will protest the orange colored boxes being posted on the building exterior as a blight. So, the standard greyish color would suffice.

By: emilp

emilp — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:56:59 +0000

Hi!
Make sure to investigate an Accesspoint version, prefeably supporting power over Ethernet.

By: Martín Varsavsky

Martín Varsavsky — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 22:33:44 +0000

Chris,

If you mean the FON AP, we measured about 5 – 7 watt (buffalo 3.3V).

Regards,

By: Chris Adams

Chris Adams — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:20:32 +0000

Quick question:

How much power do these things suck up on average? With a handcranked one-laptop-per-child machine giving apparently 100 minutes of power from 5 minutes of cranking, this device has me wondering how easy it would be to power off the grid, i.e. with solar power, or a wind turbine.

By: Christian Frhr. von der Ropp

Christian Frhr. von der Ropp — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:31:43 +0000

White or wooden-brown – just those colors house walls have, so the box won’t attrack attention.

Another idea is to still provide an external antenne jack just for the case a potential installation point would limit coverage, due to the orthogonal signal dispersion from the router (e.g. if the potential point is facing a neighbouring house wall or if mounted on the roof).

best regards,

Christian

By: AustinTX

AustinTX — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 07:34:59 +0000

Beige.

By: MatEng

MatEng — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:37:38 +0000

Hi,
in my opinion, FON should be visible.
And this is the main target of this design.
If you see one of this orange boxes, you should feel like beeing home.
There is an 12 dBi Flatpannel inside !
So, that is definately a design that fits long range client-Mode or best coverage
of hotels lounges, city centres , beaches or airpot lounges.

OK, decent colors have to be available for more decent foneros.
But orange makes more noise while spreading the message

Let’s discuss more details in the forums.
Or e-mail me to give some hints.
I am verry interested in your ideas and criticism.

MatEng