FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. The FON vision is WiFi everywhere made possible by the members of the Community, Foneros.
For some time now I have been running a FON Router for both personal and public access ( although it is fair to say the public side is very limited ! ). A few weeks ago I was sent an email from FON inviting me to apply to be part of their Beta programme. I returned the email promptly and this week I received a response informing me that I had been accepted to the programme and that in future I would be receiving their beta products for evaluation free of charge. All that is required in return is that I write an evaluation and return it to them. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Having only last week ordered the Fontenna ( the FON Router external antenna ) I am hoping that the first product I get to evaluate might be FON’s forthcoming 802.11n router. If this video is correct the claimed range for this device is around 1Km. If you think about the density of FON routers necessary to achieve blanket coverage of a particular area this sort of range makes the reality of a widely available free wireless infrastructure really start to be an possibility.
PS. Would love to hear from you if you are a Telford based FON user, I know from the FON Maps there are a few out there, one within half a mile of myself which would be an interesting test of the new 802.11n routers….
[tags]fon, wireless network, wlan, 802.11n, community network[/tags]
