Karl Cunningham wrote:
It appears Fon is ready to hit the streets. They're selling WRT54GL
routers for $33 (W/S+H) to the first 3000 comers. You have to agree
to use it on their network, and they say they've regged it so you
can't do anything else with it.
But you probably can reflash[1] the unit if you don't want to do the Fon
thing anymore.
[1]: http://www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=33
I like the idea but I wonder about the conflict with ISP-to-end-user
agreements, all of which I've seen say you can't sell or give away
access to anyone outside your home.
Are the ISPs laying low about this? Don't want to be the bad guy?
Don't know about it yet? Biding their time to see what happens?
If it ever gets popular, I'm sure ISPs will start doing something about
it. Either send nastigrams, or just plain blocking communication to the
Fon servers. As it is now, it is hard to think of any real benefits of
FON over normal open access points. The only one I can think of is that
they should have an automatically updated map showing available
hotspots[2]. Since the routers can phone home, they should show
real-time availability, but I have no idea if they have implemented that.
[2]: http://us.maps.fon.com/near/-117.166/32.7216
-- Rick
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