Free FON wifi router (+ free access at fonspots worldwide)

nick88

FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. Our members share their wireless Internet access at home and, in return, enjoy free WiFi wherever they find another Fonero’s Access Point. (You also get an encrypted access point for your personal use)

http://www.fon.com/1yearold/

"Get a FREE La Fonera WiFi router in celebration of our first birthday

- Order a FREE La Fonera WiFi router with no taxes and FREE shipping
- Join the Community and start using FONspots for FREE around the world
- FREE membership in the FON Community
- FONspots for FREE around the world
- This is a limited time offer - only 10,000 La Foneras are available (there's less for the UK though)

Get WiFi everywhere - FON gives you FREE internet access wherever you see a FONspot. There´s over 70,000 of them world wide already!

There are no downloads, no contract and no hassle. So what are you waiting for? Join FON!. Connect La Fonera or share it with someone else. That´s all!"

mjr600

I was about to post this...

I imagine this post will create an amount of discussion from techies and paranoid net users fearful of identity theft etc but if you know what you're doing this is a very nice freebie indeed.

In simple terms you share a small part of your wireless bandwidth with other users of the system whilst your traffic is protected in the normal most secure way of WPA2 and mac filtering ( or WEP etc ).

If you live in a large town or city you can expect that there will be other registered users nearby and can therefore expect your bandwidth to be shared.

HOWEVER if you live in a rural area, small village, or away from other users then the chances of you ever sharing your bandwidth would be very slim indeed. Check on the website below to see if there are users near to you.

There is also a way of making a bit of cash from sharing your connection too and I'm sure someone will comment on the Terms/Conditions of their ISP in relation to shared connection etc but I really can't see that being an issue.

Finally there is the issue of a person grabbing content which attracts the law through the free connection, I'm not a statasticion but I would suggest that the chances of this are slim to negligable (unless you read the Mail or Express doom dailies).

Ok, so it is available here

http://www.fon.com/1yearold/

Wiki entry here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FON

BBC video article here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news_web/video/9012da680052158/bb/09012da68005221b_16x9_bb.asx

The map to check users near you

http://en.fon.com/

dobbiesloan

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We have a full techie squad tracking the bug that produced this error. Please be patient and try whatever you were doing after some minutes.

Browntoa

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=370155

Marks

Thanks .

Sky_Digiman

Thank You This should be gr8! But what do u do wen u dont want it any more?

s1h

nice one cheers just signed up for it.

Can someone explain a bit more about it though I don't really get it? Can this be used as a normall wireless router like I use my current speedtouch one.

star1_2

Thanks ! - just signed up!

I've beeing thinking of getting one for ages (when it was £5 plusP&P), despite the fact that there are so many unsecure "normal" networks that it's possible to connect to (to check email etc.), it's nice to have the added ability to use the fon network too !!

esxcpl

Thanks just Singed Up

What A great idea

ozskin

what am i doing wrong clicked on link, goes to show the router for free click on checkout goes to region screen click on uk and then it shows nothing. help

raptorman

Wow, thanks for that OP. Just hope it comes through(fingers crossed)