Re: Free Wifi Acess / $5 Router

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's been around a while and featured on Digg/Slashdot a couple of
times -
in the early days I couldn't get their website to work in English...

I guess the crux of this is whether your ISP minds you sharing the
bandwidth, and will the current move towards bandwidth caps what effect
someone using your connection will have on your overall traffic

Andy

On 24/09/06, Mark McCall <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The BBCs tech show "Click" just did an interesting piece on
"Fon"
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> http://en.fon.com/
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> A special wifi router is available for 5.00 Dollars/Euros which allows
yo=
u
> to setup a 2nd wifi network at your home/work and set a the amount of
> bandwidth you share to the public.  In return you get use of all the
othe=
r
> Fon wifi access points round the world for free.
>
> I've ordered one of rhe routers for a play (around =A311.70 GBP
delivered=
).
>
> Click is repeated on BBC News 24 several times over the next couple of
> days, nextt repeat detailed below.
>
> M.
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> TECHNOLOGY: Click
> On: BBC News 24 (507)
> Date: Sunday 24th September 2006
> Time: 16:30 to 17:00 (30 minutes long)
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> Guide to all the latest gadgets, websites, games and computer industry
> news.
> (Repeat)
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> Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available
from
> http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=3D1&r=3D29892
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