FON smart wifi router tweets its status
While Meraki switched course a while ago, increasing their prices, using buzz words like “enterprise” and “cloud computing”, and stopped innovating, FON introduces a smart 802.11n wifi router for 79 EUR (about 133 AUD – Meraki’s MR11 802.11n router is 599 USD/689 AUD). It’s not just a n-wifi router, it offers some cool features you’d pay a lot more for with other brands:
- Connect a USB hub and add as many USB devices (webcams, printers, etc.) as you want.
- Convert a 3G signal into WiFi.
- Upload videos to YouTube and multiple photos automatically to Facebook, Flickr and Picasa.
- Add new applications with a simple click.
- Self Tweeting Router: Follow your Fonera2.0n via Twitter. Check the status of a download or see if a visitor has connected to your FON Spot.
Not sure if this router also runs on Open WRT and allows mesh-networking, but it is open and there’s a strong FON developer community.
And with FON you can still connect for free at any FON Spot in the world*. For FON Spots around NSW, check out the unofficial Australian FON site, or check out FON.
You can still grab a previous model for 29 EUR (also offering USB disk sharing, 3G dongle support,…).
* FON is a “pay-it-forward” service, you share yours with other FON owners, so you can use theirs for free.