[Eug-lug] FON Wifi?

Allen Brown abrown at peak.org
Mon Oct 2 10:20:57 PDT 2006


I saw one of these Saturday night at a friend's house.
It is quite small.

He will be installing it soon just outside of Corvallis.
I don't mind doing this also as long as it is outside
of my firewall.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
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Rob Hudson wrote:
> Has anyone heard of this before?
> http://en.fon.com/info/whats_fon.php
> 
> You get a Wifi router for $5.
> If you share Wifi, you get free Wifi from others who share.
> If you don't share you can use other's wifi for money.
> If you share but don't use it, you get money.
> 
> I don't see any FON users in Eugene but there's one in Marcola.
> http://maps.fon.com/
> 
> Seems like an interesting concept.  I'd imagine this go against some of 
> the Terms of Service of the internet providers, though.
> 
> -Rob


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