Comments on: Unveiling the Fonera 2.0n!

By: IT News #38 | FABblog

IT News #38 | FABblog — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:03:07 +0000

[...] Fonera 2.0n [...]

By: veronica belmont

veronica belmont — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:21:08 +0000

Thanks again for a great evening, looking forward to taking a closer look at the Fonera in the future!

Best,
Veronica Belmont, Revision3

By: vinux's status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-09 12:47:10 UTC - Identi.ca

vinux's status on Wednesday, 15-Jul-09 12:47:10 UTC - Identi.ca — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:47:20 +0000

[...] fonera 2.0 Wifi-N prévue pour mi-septembre ! http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/launching-the-fonera-20n.html [...]

By: Dave McClure

Dave McClure — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:02:57 +0000

Martin -

thanks for a wonderful dinner and an interesting product demo! the new Fonera looks cool… wish you the best of luck with the launch

- dave mcclure
founders fund

By: Jordi - FON

Jordi - FON — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:04:26 +0000

@Charbax, totally agree with you, even online backups are indeed a new trend for backup services, I still have my couple of cheap Tb HDDs with all my family notebooks and phones automated data backups. This new Fonera2.0n will indeed amaze with its performance, BT downloads do not even affect other applications running on the background, data transfers are close to the top rates you can get on the current 11n Draft.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:21:24 +0000

OK this sounds great! If we can have 6 – 8 or even 10 BitTorrents working on it at the same time, I would say that would be perfect. Then it would make no more sense runing a computer to do ones downloading work. If you implement this correctly, you could perhaps suddently become one of the greatest users of BitTorrent technology, I’m thinking for automatically downloading HD video shows using BitTorrent and RSS technology (could even be legally once TV production companies figure out they can save money on bandwidth and higher the quality by using BitTorrent and RSS to distribute their shows in HD quality to an unlimited amount of viewers).

Then for the local network attached storage bandwidth and performance, I’d probably be dreaming to hope that this generation can do upwards Gigabit LAN transfer speeds. But if you can now do closer to 100mbit/s LAN effective speeds rather than the well below 10mbit/s speeds of Fonera 2.0, then I would guess this should definitely be a pretty reliable way to synchronize ones multi-terrabytes of personal file backups. Terrabyte hard drives are now below $100, your box could be the best way to make some sense and good use out of those. Cloud storage will be great, but local hard drives are so cheap, it wouldn’t make sense not to synchronize a local copy of all ones personal backups of files as well.

By: Jordi - FON

Jordi - FON — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:39:42 +0000

@Charbax, YES, Fonera 2.0 n can download more than 2 BitTorrent files at a time Fonera 2.0 n has double the RAM (64Mb vs 32Mb) and its embedded processor on the SoC runs at 300Mhz instead of 180Mhz and on a more efficient architecture so, YES again, you can feel the difference from Fonera 2.0 and Fonera 2.0 n. But it is NOT comparable to the industries most powerful x86 processors, those are more powerful and usually come on much more expensive devices like Media Centers that usually run heavier Operating Systems like XPs or OSX. You can definitely use the Fonera 2.0 n to do Terabytes of local backups and Internet based large backup file management.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:03:36 +0000

I like the part “Fonera 2.0n is similar to the Fonera 2.0g but has a much more powerful processor”, does that mean one can download and seed more than 2 BitTorrent files at the same time?

The main problem I have replacing my x86 Ubuntu server with Fonera 2.0, is that the processor inside only support 2 BitTorrent sessions at the same time. I’d really like not to have a limit on that.

Also, does it process local media server file sharing much faster? Can we hope that it can perform pretty decently compared to the industry’s most powerful x86t based NAS boxes (such as whatever Qnap and Synology), can we perhaps consider using a Fonera 2.0n to actually do Terrabytes of local backups and other types of local and Internet based large backup file management?

By: Jordi - FON

Jordi - FON — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:11:45 +0000

Hi Matthias! here you go the ports: 1 x WAN, 4 x 100Mb LAN, 1 x USB 2.0 and regarding the WiFi SoC its the Ralink 3052 for 802.11n running our OpenWRT based Firmware.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:55:21 +0000

Hello Martin,
can you already say something about the technical specifications?
Would be interesting to know:
* How many LAN ports the device will provide
* How many USB ports the device will provide
* If the LAN ports will support 1000/100 Mbit (Gbit would re really nice!)
* Does the Wi-Fi support dual band (2,4 and 5Ghz)
* …

Thank you
Matthias