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What useful purpose does this have?
I understand the laziness factor that somehow draws people to buy this $210 machine for facebook and whatnot but i mean besides that what advantages does this even have? What do they mean by sharing a connection i mean i can open my router to anybody as well in fact its like that by default so why should anyone hand over a couple hundred for this thing?
sounds cool but they only give 50% of the profits which sucks if you are paying the internet bills. They should be a hardware company mostly and take 10% at most IMHO.
Here's some more info as well:
www.fon.com/en/support/faqs#aboutFON
They've got a great wiki with tons of information on there.
www.fon.com/en/support/faqs#aboutFON
They've got a great wiki with tons of information on there.
This new FON product is indeed useful, but the price is out of control. Since most everyone already has a wireless router, one can add these features and many more with a $65 (at Amazon) D-link GSM-D600.
The GSM-D600 has 2 USB ports and a drive bay for a 3.5" HDD (max size I believe is 500GB). One can change firmware and/or software where there are 3 different options depending on technical knowledge including running Debian. All the details can be found on the wiki here: dsmg600[dot]info
I can't recommend this option enough, but anyone interested better like Linux. I use one USB port with a 4GB thumb-drive where the OS is mounted and the other with a 4-port USB hub (Printer+2 other USB storage drives+one free port).
Please keep in mind this device runs a Freescale proc clocked at 170MHz.
The GSM-D600 has 2 USB ports and a drive bay for a 3.5" HDD (max size I believe is 500GB). One can change firmware and/or software where there are 3 different options depending on technical knowledge including running Debian. All the details can be found on the wiki here: dsmg600[dot]info
I can't recommend this option enough, but anyone interested better like Linux. I use one USB port with a 4GB thumb-drive where the OS is mounted and the other with a 4-port USB hub (Printer+2 other USB storage drives+one free port).
Please keep in mind this device runs a Freescale proc clocked at 170MHz.
