{"id":2735,"date":"2009-03-30T17:13:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2009-04-15T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T08:12:46","slug":"competitive-analysis-of-the-fonera-20-vs-belkin-linksys-asus-and-d-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2735","title":{"rendered":"Competitive analysis of the Fonera 2.0 vs Belkin, Linksys, Asus and D-Link"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below is a comparison table listing features and prices of the Fonera 2.0<\/a> and its closest competitors. Companies like ASUS<\/a>, Planex<\/a>, D-Link<\/a>, Belkin<\/a> and Linksys<\/a> all sell wireless routers with USB ports and storage features, but none of these provides the same functionality \u00a0as the Fonera 2.0 and none can match its 49\u20ac price. This makes the Fonera 2.0 the best deal on the market if you are looking for a smart router that not only gives you wifi, but also allows you to share hard drives, printers and webcams in your network and delegate your downloading and uploading activities to an\u00a0inexpensive\u00a0tiny router, letting you keep your PC off while downloading at night, helping you save money and reduce carbon emissions.<\/p>\n

The closest competitors for the Fonera 2.0 are WiFi routers from Planex and ASUS that let you download files from BitTorrent<\/a> to a USB hard drive and share a printer on your network. Both lack most of the Fonera 2.0’s features, like Youtube<\/a>, Flickr<\/a> and Picasa<\/a> uploaders, out-of-the-box support for 3G modems and the Megaupload<\/a> and Rapidshare<\/a> downloaders.\u00a0Both ASUS and Planex products let you stream your files to iTunes equipped PCs or media devices and we’ll soon release the same iTunes server functionality for the Fonera 2.0.\u00a0On top of that, the Fonera 2.0, like a normal Fonera, lets you\u00a0\u00a0share some of your bandwidth at home, make some money with your WiFi connection and roam the world for free. This unique feature is not available in any other router. The Fonera continues to be the only social router in the world.<\/p>\n

Planex BitTorrent routers<\/a> are hard to find in Europe or the US (or at least I couldn’t find recent pricing information for them), while the ASUS WL-500g Premium<\/a> and its bigger brother, the WL-700<\/a> (equipped with a 250GB drive), cost respectively around 100\u20ac and 220\u20ac.\u00a0The other routers in the table provide only basic file sharing features and nonetheless all cost more then our Fonera 2.0. The Belkin N+ router and D-Link DIR-855 offer greater coverage thanks to the\u00a0802.11n standard, that the Fonera 2.0 (which is 802.11g) can beat using our Fontennas<\/a>. We decided to keep the price of the Fonera low by not including a hard drive as there are 1 tera HDD now for only 99 euros. The Fonera works best with a USB 2.0 hub so you can combine pen drives, hard drives, web cams, 3G dongles, or whatever USB device you fancy.<\/p>\n

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Below is a comparison table listing features and prices of the Fonera 2.0 and its closest competitors. Companies like ASUS, Planex, D-Link, Belkin and Linksys all sell wireless routers with USB ports and storage features, but none of these provides the same functionality \u00a0as the Fonera 2.0 and none can match its 49\u20ac price. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}