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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

New firmwares on sight

Hi FONeros,

This is Iurgi from the development department of FON. We are proud to announce the upcoming relesae of two new firmware releases 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: DONbasic, 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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