Comments on: Why Does FON Give Away Routers In The Form Of The Fonero Promise? http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html Blog of an entrepreneur Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-257185 Paul Sat, 23 May 2009 19:21:01 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-257185 Yesterday in the area of "alta Lisboa", Lisbon, Portugal. Drinking coffee on a terras of a local bar-restaurant I wanted to see on my iPhone if there were some wireless stations that could give me temporary internet access, when I saw a Wireless FONspot. It remembered me of reading about this system a year or more ago. I am thinking about getting such a FON router to instal. But I think the rate of 2 Euros for one hour is quite expensive (for socalled alien use) and the 10 minutes free access I could not reach because the video did not run on my iPhone. I appearantly did not have flash program on the safari browser. Question: we have Clix as provider. Can the FON router (in Portugal sold by competitor ZON) be used on the Clix network? Yesterday in the area of “alta Lisboa”, Lisbon, Portugal. Drinking coffee on a terras of a local bar-restaurant I wanted to see on my iPhone if there were some wireless stations that could give me temporary internet access, when I saw a Wireless FONspot. It remembered me of reading about this system a year or more ago. I am thinking about getting such a FON router to instal. But I think the rate of 2 Euros for one hour is quite expensive (for socalled alien use) and the 10 minutes free access I could not reach because the video did not run on my iPhone. I appearantly did not have flash program on the safari browser. Question: we have Clix as provider. Can the FON router (in Portugal sold by competitor ZON) be used on the Clix network?

]]> By: Martin Varsavsky http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-2321 Martin Varsavsky Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:52:06 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-2321 Jim, We are about to launch the Fontenna to fix this problem, it triples the range. Jim,

We are about to launch the Fontenna to fix this problem, it triples the range.

]]> By: Jim http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-2320 Jim Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:16:08 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-2320 I think this idea is great, but the Fonera itself has to weak of signal, and the small antenna isnt helping, I can only get a signal just outside my garage, this isnt going to help many others. I think this idea is great, but the Fonera itself has to weak of signal, and the small antenna isnt helping, I can only get a signal just outside my garage, this isnt going to help many others.

]]> By: Jordi http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-2319 Jordi Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:14:13 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-2319 Miguel, Actually this is done on our current firmware so Foneros can see in Googlemaps which access points are available for them to connect while not at home. Jordi Miguel,
Actually this is done on our current firmware so Foneros can see in Googlemaps which access points are available for them to connect while not at home.
Jordi

]]> By: Miguel http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-2318 Miguel Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:23:38 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-2318 In the future every Access Point Fonera can send a message "I'm alive" to your servers .. So it's possible to monitoring every user and how much time its access point is on .. Why not in the next firmware? In the future every Access Point Fonera can send a message “I’m alive” to your servers .. So it’s possible to monitoring every user and how much time its access point is on ..
Why not in the next firmware?

]]> By: Martin Varsavsky http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-2317 Martin Varsavsky Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:12:21 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-2317 Peter, You are confusing registered users with registered FONspots. We have over 270k registered FONeros. 100k registered FONspots. Peter,

You are confusing registered users with registered FONspots. We have over 270k registered FONeros. 100k registered FONspots.

]]> By: Peter http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-2316 Peter Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:57:31 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-2316 You look desperate to show some numbers, Martin, is there something cooking we don't know? On one press release all users are hotspots, so magically you can roam on 250k fonspots...now you say it's 100k... You look desperate to show some numbers, Martin, is there something cooking we don’t know? On one press release all users are hotspots, so magically you can roam on 250k fonspots…now you say it’s 100k…

]]> By: Euronerd http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-2315 Euronerd Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:43:48 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-2315 Wow, Martin, to me this looks like FON's September promise, mailed to us during introduction of the Fonera, finally is kept. Took some time though. Remember, at that time (end of August, actually) FON's site reported having 85000 Fonero's !! All Linksys, if they had a hotspot. Wow, Martin, to me this looks like FON’s September promise, mailed to us during introduction of the Fonera, finally is kept.
Took some time though.
Remember, at that time (end of August, actually) FON’s site reported having 85000 Fonero’s !! All Linksys, if they had a hotspot.

]]> By: Tim http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-2314 Tim Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:26:01 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-2314 I wanted to point out that there are other motivations for being a Fonero other than wanting to join other FON spots in other places. I've been a Fonero for a while and never done that, but I like FON because it gives me a way to share my wifi without putting my network and devices at risk. It's a self-reinforcing way to get more shared wireless networks, like the GPL I wanted to point out that there are other motivations for being a Fonero other than wanting to join other FON spots in other places. I’ve been a Fonero for a while and never done that, but I like FON because it gives me a way to share my wifi without putting my network and devices at risk. It’s a self-reinforcing way to get more shared wireless networks, like the GPL

]]> By: Martin Varsavsky http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/why-does-fon-give-away-routers-in-the-form-of-the-fonero-promise.html#comment-2313 Martin Varsavsky Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:57:48 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=649#comment-2313 Paul, The advantage of FON is: - We are the largest WiFi network with 100K fonspots and growing about 20K per month, if you join a network you join ours. - As opposed to new efforts FON has 2 SSIDs and provides protection against leechers and a firewall against hackers. In any case, Paul, we did over 10K new FONeros last week alone. Keep trying, you will find a fonspot! Paul,

The advantage of FON is:

- We are the largest WiFi network with 100K fonspots and growing about 20K per month, if you join a network you join ours.

- As opposed to new efforts FON has 2 SSIDs and provides protection against leechers and a firewall against hackers.

In any case, Paul, we did over 10K new FONeros last week alone. Keep trying, you will find a fonspot!

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