Free router?

[michaels]

http://www.fon.com/1yearold/

 

[tealk]

Hmmmm!

 

[msi1337]

this is for those who wish to freely share their broadband connection...

 

[2Xtreme21]

This Special Offer is valid until Saturday, March 31st, 2007 and limited to 10000 units and to people who register or are already registered as Foneros. This Offer is limited to one router per user and shipping address who are residents of the USA. You will not be eligible for this Offer if you have previously purchased a subsidised La Fonera at www.fon.com.

Once FON has confirmation that you have registered as a member of our Community, we will send you the La Fonera for free (shipping costs and sales tax are included). Once you have received your La Fonera, your will be required to install the La Fonera and maintain it activated within the FON Community. If for any reason you are not able to do so, we ask that you kindly pass the La Fonera onto a friend who wants to share WiFi as a Fonero.

FON will publish your location on the FON maps that highlight the FON Community?s Access Points. Your personal data will be handled in accordance with the FON Privacy and Data Protection Policy that you will accept or have accepted when registering with FON. The FON Privacy and Data Protection Policy complies with the Spanish Organic Act 15/1999 entitled the Personal Data Protection Law and the UK Protection Act 1998, their corresponding regulations and other relevant legislation.

On our website www.fon.com you can find all of the necessary information for installation and registration of your La Fonera.

 

[Thump553]

This came up before, last year sometime. It seemed to me then, and now, that you'd be giving up a heck of a lot to get a $30 piece of equipment.

 

[duzytata]

I grabbed one of these the last time they were free. I haven't played with it yet, but they are supposed to be hackable. If you don't want to be part of the Fon network, at least it's something to take apart and play with.

 

[njcoig]

Originally posted by: Thump553
This came up before, last year sometime. It seemed to me then, and now, that you'd be giving up a heck of a lot to get a $30 piece of equipment.

I think it's a pretty cool idea. With the relatively low-range of Wi-Fi, you have to get a LOT of these out there, especailly in suburban areas, to make any sort of difference, but in densely populated cities (like in Europe, the origin of the project) this is brilliant if you have enough capital to get it going (and enough people who don't TAKE THEM APART but actually use them as intended!).

In for one.

Good find, and anyone who wants some free bandwidth (really, can I use 7mbps?) come on by.

-N

 

[Dudewithoutapet]

Originally posted by: njcoig

Originally posted by: Thump553
This came up before, last year sometime. It seemed to me then, and now, that you'd be giving up a heck of a lot to get a $30 piece of equipment.

I think it's a pretty cool idea. With the relatively low-range of Wi-Fi, you have to get a LOT of these out there, especailly in suburban areas, to make any sort of difference, but in densely populated cities (like in Europe, the origin of the project) this is brilliant if you have enough capital to get it going (and enough people who don't TAKE THEM APART but actually use them as intended!).

In for one.

Good find, and anyone who wants some free bandwidth (really, can I use 7mbps?) come on by.

-N

OOOooohhh, where do you live? I'd like some of that 7 mbps, hehehe.

 

[13Gigatons]

I presume it is a standard wifi router that they are sending right ?

 

[thescreensavers]

I guess so it got one Ethernet port and a power and thats it

 

[thescreensavers]

well.. I got my order number and everything so.. I guess its real

 

[f4phantom2500]

Snagged one. I dunno exactly what it is that I snagged, but I snagged one. Can you use this as a regular router or do you have to set it up with their service or w/e?

 

[harpy82]

Hack your FON

I did it, works great. Now i can change my SSID and encryption, and prevent FON from making changes from their server.

Still can't disable the public AP though ( note: it has public AP for FON free wifi, and a private that is WPA encrypted for your home)

edit: it is pretty much useless if you already have a wireless router. but it is freaking small so probably you can bring along for hotel wireless.

 

[Devil2U]

I am in for one. I read about FON several months ago, but was not interested in dropping the $30 on their router.

But for free, count me in as a fon member. It is a cool idea that needs a promo like this to kick it into gear. And as for hacking your fon....
It is not really in the spirit of what the FON community is trying to accomplish.

But if you really want to share some net, and get some when you travel, hop on board!

 

[GTFan]

If you read about the latest hacks for FON routers, you'll see that there aren't any because they closed the holes. So YMMV until a new hack is found.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

so wait... I see zero in my area for like 100 miles on the google earth thing.... people find FON.com and the next day I have 30 cars parked outside of my house...

 

[BIGFOOTPI]

"This Special Offer is valid until Saturday, March 31st, 2007 and limited to 10000 units and to people who register or are already registered as Foneros. This Offer is limited to one router per user and shipping address who are residents of the USA. You will not be eligible for this Offer if you have previously purchased a subsidised La Fonera at www.fon.com.

Once FON has confirmation that you have registered as a member of our Community, we will send you the La Fonera for free (shipping costs and sales tax are included). Once you have received your La Fonera, your will be required to install the La Fonera and maintain it activated within the FON Community. If for any reason you are not able to do so, we ask that you kindly pass the La Fonera onto a friend who wants to share WiFi as a Fonero.

FON will publish your location on the FON maps that highlight the FON Community?s Access Points. Your personal data will be handled in accordance with the FON Privacy and Data Protection Policy that you will accept or have accepted when registering with FON. The FON Privacy and Data Protection Policy complies with the Spanish Organic Act 15/1999 entitled the Personal Data Protection Law and the UK Protection Act 1998, their corresponding regulations and other relevant legislation.

On our website www.fon.com you can find all of the necessary information for installation and registration of your La Fonera.
"

 

[garrettgjb]

I don't understand why they tell you in the user guide to put on an encryption. Isn't the point to let everyone use it?

 

[Devil2U]

This offers looks dead now, as the page now displays "Oops, wrong room.
Try going to www.fon.com"

You can still buy one for $30, or flash your own WRT router with their software.

 

[13Gigatons]

The router arrived today, I have to mess around with it now.

 

[STotaro]

I drove around my area running network stumbler. One small circle about ten miles I picked up over seven hundred access points and about 75% of them were not encrypted. Also, many municpalities are deploying wifi to promote businesses.

Out of curiousity, what is the brand and model of the AP?

Why bother with this?

 

[13Gigatons]

Originally posted by: STotaro
I drove around my area running network stumbler. One small circle about ten miles I picked up over seven hundred access points and about 75% of them were not encrypted. Also, many municpalities are deploying wifi to promote businesses.

Out of curiousity, what is the brand and model of the AP?

Why bother with this?

It's free, some of us have older wired routers and this adds wireless feature.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

I just got mine today. It seems to be free still when I took it out of the box.

 

[STotaro]

does anyone know what the smallest router that can run OpenWRT?

 

[monzi]

There are many guides out there about putting on WW-WRT or OPEN-WRT on the unit. It becomes a free wireless router. Range/power can me modified upon many other things. it is excellent because you can also use it as a wireless card, and change the 1 network ethernet as a bridge. Ohhhh man. I ordered 3 of these things and I have them all around the house as axx points, on the xbox360....YOU NAME IT!

It is very easy to modify, and requires a total of 30 minutes of your time. But if you do not know how to setup a HTTP server on your local box to WGET files, nor have knowledge of TFTP then I suggest you use this thing in the fashion in which it was intended.


Have fun hacking your FON!

-M