About a month ago, the Spanish company, FON, was giving away 2000 free wireless routers across Canada. In case you don’t know, FON is the company that claims to have the largest WiFi community in the world. To get the free router all you need to do is joining their community and sharing a little bit of your bandwith with other people. I signed up for one just for fun (it’s a free router, right?). Got the router this Monday. It turned to be a very cute little thing (that’s not my hand by the way).
Small as it is, it has a very unique feature: two SSIDs. One unsecured for public access and one secured with WPA for private access. Very thoughtful. You can also specify how much bandwidth you want to share. If you go to their website, you can see where all the registered routers are including yourself. The following screen cap shows where I am. Well, it’s about a couple of blocks off but close enough. The big green circle is supposed to show the coverage and last activity and the little orange dot is where I live.
