Full Version: Bt Fon
Does anyone here know about BT FON?
You donate some of your bandwidth, and you can use other people's hotspots in return... it's all a bit rubbish really.
QUOTE (suchuwato @ Apr 30 2008, 01:30 PM) 
You donate some of your bandwidth, and you can use other people's hotspots in return... it's all a bit rubbish really.
I wouldn't trust other people on my connection.
Well, let me try to clarify something as i guess, confusion and half knowledge gets you to the wrong conclusions.
First of all, DONT go to BtFon but www.fon.com, thats the original "FON" creator. As for, as some here have said that it is rubbish or cant be trusted, well read on.
FON is the result of a great idea, in the line of linuxs open source. What they wanted to do is simply, create a worldwide wifi coverage for free.
How they do it is simple, you register and get a wireless router which you connect directly to your phoneline, so there are NO security issues in regards to your lan network. once you are registered you can access the internet from wherever in the world where there is a "fon hotspot" and trust me, there are a lot, you can check on theyr site, its kinda like google maps.
How can it be free ? easy solution too, there is an "elite" version of theyr connectivity service, which has faster access and some optional fitures for which has to be paied, those that use this service pay also for the gratis routers that get send to whomever registers for the free service.
There are also many big companies that are involved in this project which finance it and a lot of shops/bars/etc.... which offer free internet to theyr clients.
What it comes down to, is that its one of those great ideas that es usual get looked down to in the beginning, but we just need to look at whats going on with linux and p2p
First of all, DONT go to BtFon but www.fon.com, thats the original "FON" creator. As for, as some here have said that it is rubbish or cant be trusted, well read on.
FON is the result of a great idea, in the line of linuxs open source. What they wanted to do is simply, create a worldwide wifi coverage for free.
How they do it is simple, you register and get a wireless router which you connect directly to your phoneline, so there are NO security issues in regards to your lan network. once you are registered you can access the internet from wherever in the world where there is a "fon hotspot" and trust me, there are a lot, you can check on theyr site, its kinda like google maps.
How can it be free ? easy solution too, there is an "elite" version of theyr connectivity service, which has faster access and some optional fitures for which has to be paied, those that use this service pay also for the gratis routers that get send to whomever registers for the free service.
There are also many big companies that are involved in this project which finance it and a lot of shops/bars/etc.... which offer free internet to theyr clients.
What it comes down to, is that its one of those great ideas that es usual get looked down to in the beginning, but we just need to look at whats going on with linux and p2p
QUOTE (Thewacokid @ Apr 30 2008, 01:38 PM)
I wouldn't trust other people on my connection.
After all the trouble I have had from someone using my wireless connection to download illegal stuff. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole unless the company take legal reponsibilty for misuse not the user
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