I don’t know if you guys know about the Fon router, I have personally used one for ages. It is a community based project, the thinking is that a lot of people buy fon routers, and with the router you get a passcode. If you’re anywhere in the world and you find a Fon router, you can use that password to use it for free. People without Fon passwords can also use your Fon router for a small fee, so you can also earn from buying one.
Now, the Fon 2.0 router is out, which allows you to download to a pendrive, external hard drive, upload to Youtube, all that fun stuff, but without having your PC or laptop turned on! Just set up a Youtube upload, add some torrent files, switch off your laptop, and the download/upload goes on. There are tons of cool apps built into the firmware, as the screencast about it says, it’s like a mini linux in there.
The price is EUR 50, which is roughly $65 now. Compared to the price of the old Fon this is pricey, but not compared to other top of the line routers which can’t do half as much. I purchased three routers pooling with my friends for about $10 each, and I have been using it since, it really is a great pieve of hardware, so I can’t wait to get my hands on the new one. Even if you don’t need these functions check it out, you will be helping out a great cause. I don’t travel as much, but one of my friends spends all his time doing so and he finds Fon routers everywhere in the World!
Related posts:
- Netgear WGR614L Open Source Wireless-G Router
- Don’t Panic Lets You Run And Hide Software Groups
- Where’s that darn router password?
- Share your WiFi and earn with Fon
- The Firefox 3 Download World Record
- Simple Port Forwarding
- Limit Upload and Download Bandwidth
- Protect your Wireless Lan
When will this be released in the UK?
I wrote about such a device in my blog a couple of weeks ago. Great to see that such a thing exists!
http://blog.mikedavidsmith.com/?p=72