[Fwd: Re: maybe cheap WRT54GL ?]

[Thomas Charron]

On 6/28/06, Jon maddog Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
>
> >  Sure wish I knew how the fark they intend on making money..
> Once the access point is set up, there is no cost to FON.com for this
> service (no electricity, no ISP connection), just some servers that handle
> the
> purchases, etc.


  Except that now that you've provided it, you can, if I understand it
correctly, use their service for free.


> Sure, there will be a lot of "Linuses", but there will be a lot of "Bills"
> and "Aliens" too, who will pay for the access.  3 Eros (about 4 dollars)
> a day for the "service" of which half goes to FON.com.  I am sure that a
> lot
> of "Bills" will just leave the money in the account for a while.  That
> also
> builds up interest.
>

  Depends on if it takes off.

  Personally?  I don't want it.  Granted, I may pick one or three up to
extend the range at the house, I'm in the boonies and have nill likelyhood
of anyone actually using the bandwidth..

  (Unless, of course, there are others in Lyndeborough who want to try out
setting up a larger scale 802.11 network, which would be fun..)

  Just worried that down the road they'd say 'No ones using you, we're
charging you, farker!'.

  Thomas
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