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Sunday, February 5, 2006

New firmwares in sight

Hi FONeros,

This is Iurgi from the development department of FON. We are proud to announce the upcoming release of two new firmware versions at the same time.

The first one will be an update of our previous firmware. It will be mainly a bugfix but will also have some additional features, such as PPPoE support, fallback system if no Internet connection is detected (showing wan configuration interface), default password, inter-network isolation (WLAN users cannot access LAN) etc. But the main feature is a much more simple and efficient way of registering the access point. I can foretell you that the ones that have already registered your access points will be requested to do it again after reflashing; but only for this time. Future eventual reflashes won't require you to register the router again.

The second firmware we are going to release will be much more powerful. Whilst the other one will stuck to simplicity, for those who just want it to be plug and play, this second one will be based on the famous dd-wrt firmware by Brainsalyer. Being based on such a powerful firmware, will provide you with the capability of fine tuning many features. This firmware is recommended for those who want to have full control of their boxes and want to redirect specific ports to their own servers, need special configuration protocols for their Internet connection etc.

So we will have 2 different firmwares supported simltaneously: FONbasic, for those who want it simple yet usable and reliable and FONadvanced for the more exigent ones.

It's up to you which one to use.

Release date? We can't say it yet, but I can promise you it will be soon, during this month.

 

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Registered WiFi access points. Interesting. What would make FON even better would be if each registered hotspot had GPS coordinates. Many phones/devices will be equipped with a GPS receiver in the future, so they could then locate FON hotspots if they were outside reach.

Just a thought. ;)

# 1 | Sent by: John Lysfjord – Monday, February 6, 2006 (04:02)

I am using Google Earth to locate fon hotspots works great.

# 2 | Sent by: teleken – Wednesday, February 8, 2006 (15:50)

Hello,
I installed the advanced firmware and got it up and running. FONadvanced-0.6.0.bin. However, I can only connect when I enter the user name as a home user. It doesn't look like FON will accept my usern ame acount registered with them. In the forums, they mentioned the servers are overloaded. Is there anywhere to confirm if you have had your FON wifi accepted?

-Monterey

# 3 | Sent by: Monterey Gardiner – Sunday, February 12, 2006 (03:15)

Hi,
you may want to consider to go a level deeper in managing the lcoal hardware. We have developed software that runs on most commonly available ADSL routers to talk to software in our back-end on some webservers. The solution allows you to manage the entire router from the WAN side. We have application for residential networks where the home user can surf to a protal and easily manage users, devices and services (eg content filters firewall)after which the router gets configured by our back end. We also have a hotspot application that reduces the installation of a hotspot to just connecting the phone line coming from the splitter and entering the DSL ID and password. The end user has a hotspot (free, free in eschange of email or paid) and 4 ethernet ports for his private network as a seperate LAN. Installation takes less than a minute. Upgrading, new services, GPS coordinates, new firmware, you name it and our back-end provisions it hands free. I won't put pricing in here but in some volmue it gets much smaller than a retail commission on the DSL line... We can run on any device that is build using Broadcom, TI, Intel, ADI .. and we are Broadcom's vendor on remote management of such CPEs (standard is TR-069 from DSLforum, which is bit a of a hot topic in DSL around the world, and where we are well ahead of the market) Our vision includes Linux, Java, OpenSource, standards and best of breed partnerships for technology suppremacy. We can provide as a full service or allow FON to be the operator of a back-end.
If you are interested we're happy to open a conversation on this.

# 4 | Sent by: johan Konings – Tuesday, February 14, 2006 (18:48)

What if a FONer downloads or uploads pornography over my access point? I couldn’t find out how I am protected against being accused, because the IP Address of the access point will be mine. There should be a FON proxy network where FONers are connecting and if not it’s quite a big privacy/security issue.

# 5 | Sent by: Igor – Friday, February 17, 2006 (09:42)


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