[wsfii-discuss] Fwd: [india-gii] wireless connectivity.. Is 802.11n the end of ethernet?

Sun Sep 30 07:59:39 UTC 2007

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 23:10 +0200, Gregers Petersen wrote:
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> kloschi wrote:
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> >> Anybody interested in setting up Fon (http://www.fon.com) in India?
> >> That's probably the simplest community mesh wifi network around, 
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> Fon is in the default mode just in normal managed mode - you might be
> confusing Fon with Meraki?

Issue with Fon that one promises to use it their way.

http://www.fon.com/images/media/en/en_purchase_conditions.pdf

The hardware is easily to "de-fon" and install openwrt on it.

Then there is a cheap hardware with broken promise.

I buy them "promisless" on places like E-Bay. 

The board is a atheros with mips-processor.

And a far can see Meraki uses the same board.

>From openwtr you could install olsr ospf etc.

Heat seams a probleem is the fon boxes (solvable with some
modifications)

it will do 11b-g

if you need diversity some soldering is need, but possible.

The fon-tenna is not much use => 7 db output and 4db los over the cable.

Marten

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>                srs
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> > hello ram :)
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> > fon is a top-down comercial oriented "community building" enterprise. if
> > we talk _free_ information infrastructures I would avoid that kind of
> > attitude from the beginning. 
> > with the freifunk firmware and a website (wiki) in the local language
> > that kind of community could grow by itself, without having external
> > comercial attitude, imho. at least thats what happened all over germany
> > and in many other countries as well with civil society based
> > approaches .. the networks just grew by the interest of the
> > participants / number of users or enthusiasts. and still grow.
> > 
> > <rant>
> > why stumbling from one non-democratic situation into the next? as you
> > might know, google and skype invented millions into the fon company,
> > and .. well "they do not evil" .. 
> > </rant>
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> > ;) you know what I mean.
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> I know what you mean :-)
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