The Fontenna

You can view how to make a simple wave reflector with high gain, in this post http://blog.wilson.com.pt/2007/03/20/wireless-antena-24-ghz/

We're going to make it free for Foneros with the busiest hotspots!

==> in my opinion you should give it at the first 1000 "foneros" who ask to have!

Here's one idea.

Have you guys thought of doing the following:

- Make La Fonera work as a repeater
* one SSID plugs to my current private WLAN
* second SSID does the FON_ thing
* the kicker, let me plug my xbox/xbmc/slingbox/htpc and connect to my private WLAN trough the Ethernet port.

I believe this is an everybody win approach, because of the following:
- If placed in my living room, chances are La Fonera would be closer to a window/patio/[front|back]yard and therefore a public area than if it's located in a basement/attic and therefore linus/aliens get better reception.
- The fonero gets to plug non Wi-Fi enabled gadgets in the living room.
- La Fonera has less chances of getting bricked when following this guide http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/La_Fonera_Flashing

Let me know if you plan to implement this or if this is readily doable with plain Fonera firmware so I can refrain from hacking my way around the coming weekend.

My 2¢

Davide - I'll pass along your suggestion but I think we're going with the initial plan.

Alex - I can tell you we won't have anything like that before this weekend. Good luck, let me know how you do. Make sure you read up on the firmware hacking, some of the hacks work, some are doomed to fail.