<div>thanks Steven,</div>
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<div>if you spot any recent article on their status, thanks for letting me know,</div>
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<div>Michel</div>
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<div><br clear="all">Topic: update on the FON wireless project<br>Steven Leeman <<a href="mailto:steven.leeman@gmail.com">steven.leeman@gmail.com</a>> Jul 06 12:05AM -0700 ^</div>
<p> <br>Hi,<br> <br>FON works according to the "sharing" principle....<br>you share your wifi at home...I do thesame..when you visit my home you<br>can get online as well...<br> <br>this worked nicely but it's exploding fast now that ISP's are also<br>
using it in their internet wifi routers like BT (England), ZON<br>(Portugal), Comstar Russia, Softbank Japan... and within a few months<br>also Belgacom will activate it on their million of subscribers...<br> <br>It works with "isolated modus" so if you launch a neighbourhood<br>
scanner you will only find yourself and the fonspot... not the others<br>connected to it...<br> <br>it works with a captive portal... so everybody has to give their ID...<br>but you can "remember" your credentials or you can use a "connection<br>
manager" available for many platforms (<a href="http://www.easywifi.com/">www.easywifi.com</a>) that use the<br>WISPR protocol<br> <br>and in some countries like BT & Belgacom the public wifi signal will<br>be using a seperate ppoe session with a different public ip not<br>
traceable to the internet modem user....<br> <br>at the moment there are more than 4 million fonspots ...<br> <br>and more isp's are joining soon!!!<br>it's still possible to flash a linksys WRT54GL with FON firmware or<br>
buy a cheap fonera if your with an ISP that didn't join this network<br>of Cigar Smokers :-)<br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
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