Comments on: Share WIFI, build a WIFI Nation

By: Janine M Lodato

Janine M Lodato — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 15:45:31 +0000

There is great potential for a FON network in each and every of the 40,000 rural communities in the USA supported by USDA grants.

This would aid the 100 million elderly, disabled and
chronically ill and their 44 million informal caregivers.

I have a detailed proposal how to do this.

Please contact me directly by email.

By: Paramendra Bhagat

Paramendra Bhagat — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:31:04 +0000

http://technbiz.blogspot.com/2006/02/are-you-fonero.html

By: Juan

Juan — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:27:46 +0000

> By the way even though FON sounds like
> telecoms FON is a tribe in Africa
> (google it) and joining FON is like
> becoming a member of a bandwidth
> sharing tribe.

I did google it, here is what I found:
After conquering numerous small coastal states, the Fon monopolized the region’s slave trade resulting in phenomenal economic gains. The income helped to support the wealth of the King whose power was absolute.

Juan

By: Fenix

Fenix — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:54:08 +0000

It’s an interesting idea, but how will the legal issue of someone doing something illegal using my accesspoint affect the person owning the access point?

By: Christer

Christer — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:26:17 +0000

I heard Martins presentation of FON at the SIME conference in Stockholm earlier this week. What a great idea!!

Go FON!!

By: Eric Henderson

Eric Henderson — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:52:58 +0000

Sounds Great! I’m in the US – Wichita, Kansas – and am deploying a similar idea here – let’s join forces…

Email me or call me at 1-316-518-9350 in the US.

By: John Norrer

John Norrer — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 14:07:48 +0000

As I understand it, there will be an option of reselling my bandwidth (a “Bill”). How will you manage that when most ISPs explicitly do not allow sharing beyond the household, and even less so allow for making money off the connection?

Regards,
John

By: Handco

Handco — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:10:13 +0000

FON is the same principe as NoCat ?

By: João

João — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:22:51 +0000

Where can we find more details about the mechanisms/protocols used?

By: Chris Car

Chris Car — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:25:22 +0000

This idea sounds very interesting, but I have one technical question: you said that your software is installed in wifi base stations. But how to you modifiy the firmware of, ie. a rather cheap Linksys access point? Ok, there is a modified firmware available for the Linksys WRT54g, but as far as I know it is not that easy to add software to it and you need a good technical background to modify the firmware… Did I understand your business model right? Or am I on a completely wrong path?