PC Advisor - Fontera offer.

I was reading the Feb 08 copy of PCadvisor which says that you can have a
free Wifi router if you subscribe.

This sounded an attractive idea, so I thought that I would learnt more, and
went to the PC Advisor web site where I learnt that the product being
offered is a Fontera, which lets other members of the Fontera community
share your network connection using WiFi. BT have adopted the technology.

The Fontera does not contain a broadband modem but would appear to be a
Wireless Access Point. Googling for Fontera I found that one of the most
popular sites was one telling you how to hack them!

Does anyone have any practical experience of the Fontera?



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"Michael Chare" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I was reading the Feb 08 copy of PCadvisor which says that you can have a
>free Wifi router if you subscribe.
>
> This sounded an attractive idea, so I thought that I would learnt more,
> and went to the PC Advisor web site where I learnt that the product being
> offered is a Fontera, which lets other members of the Fontera community
> share your network connection using WiFi. BT have adopted the technology.
>
> The Fontera does not contain a broadband modem but would appear to be a
> Wireless Access Point. Googling for Fontera I found that one of the most
> popular sites was one telling you how to hack them!
>
> Does anyone have any practical experience of the Fontera?

Sorry, can't help with your problem but you've just got to love magazine
publishers. How can you be reading Feb 08 issue in Dec 07? It's like petrol
companies - how can they charge .9 or .7 or whatever of a penny?

Bah humbug )

John

"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Michael Chare" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I was reading the Feb 08 copy of PCadvisor which says that you can have a
>>free Wifi router if you subscribe.
>>
>> This sounded an attractive idea, so I thought that I would learnt more,
>> and went to the PC Advisor web site where I learnt that the product being
>> offered is a Fontera, which lets other members of the Fontera community
>> share your network connection using WiFi. BT have adopted the technology.
>>
>> The Fontera does not contain a broadband modem but would appear to be a
>> Wireless Access Point. Googling for Fontera I found that one of the most
>> popular sites was one telling you how to hack them!
>>
>> Does anyone have any practical experience of the Fontera?
>
> Sorry, can't help with your problem but you've just got to love magazine
> publishers. How can you be reading Feb 08 issue in Dec 07? It's like
> petrol companies - how can they charge .9 or .7 or whatever of a penny?
>
> Bah humbug )
>
> John


I once worked for a petrol company. Somebody worked out that if they
increase the price by 1p/litre (it might have been gallon) they could afford
to double everyone's pay. Trouble is if there are two adjacent stations and
one charges 1p/litre more which one do you stop at.?

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Michael Chare wrote:

> I was reading the Feb 08 copy of PCadvisor

Don't you love the time warp the mags live in ?

Graham

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 14:24:56 -0000 Michael Chare
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felt we might be interested in the following...


> I once worked for a petrol company. Somebody worked out that if they
> increase the price by 1p/litre (it might have been gallon) they could afford
> to double everyone's pay. Trouble is if there are two adjacent stations and
> one charges 1p/litre more which one do you stop at.?

The one charging a penny less. No brainer really...


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On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 14:24:56 -0000, "Michael Chare"
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>"John" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news(E-Mail Removed)...
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>> "Michael Chare" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>I was reading the Feb 08 copy of PCadvisor which says that you can have a
>>>free Wifi router if you subscribe.
>>>
>>> This sounded an attractive idea, so I thought that I would learnt more,
>>> and went to the PC Advisor web site where I learnt that the product being
>>> offered is a Fontera, which lets other members of the Fontera community
>>> share your network connection using WiFi. BT have adopted the technology.
>>>
>>> The Fontera does not contain a broadband modem but would appear to be a
>>> Wireless Access Point. Googling for Fontera I found that one of the most
>>> popular sites was one telling you how to hack them!
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any practical experience of the Fontera?
>>
>> Sorry, can't help with your problem but you've just got to love magazine
>> publishers. How can you be reading Feb 08 issue in Dec 07? It's like
>> petrol companies - how can they charge .9 or .7 or whatever of a penny?
>>
>> Bah humbug )
>>
>> John
>
>
>I once worked for a petrol company. Somebody worked out that if they
>increase the price by 1p/litre (it might have been gallon) they could afford
>to double everyone's pay. Trouble is if there are two adjacent stations and
>one charges 1p/litre more which one do you stop at.?


It wouldn't matter round here - there are plenty of petrol stations
but they all put their prices up simultaneously and all charge exactly
the same - no hint of price fixing eh

jasper

Eeyore wrote:
>
> Michael Chare wrote:
>
>> I was reading the Feb 08 copy of PCadvisor
>
> Don't you love the time warp the mags live in ?

Apparently, talking to she that knows (and must be obeyed), the date on
the magazine is actually the date it is supposed to be removed from the
shelves, a bit like the date on a loaf of bread.

This made some kind of sense when you could read the January 08 issue in
December, but being two months out implies either
A) It is a bimestrial[1] publication
or
B) Their tardis is malfunctioning
or
C) They are quite mad.

I know which one my money is on.

Jim
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[1] Occurs every two months. I'd have used bi-monthly, but this can
also mean 'occurs twice a month'. Confused, eh?

We appologise for the incompetence

On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:47:32 +0000, Michael Chare wrote:

> The Fontera does not contain a broadband modem but would appear to be a
> Wireless Access Point. Googling for Fontera I found that one of the
> most popular sites was one telling you how to hack them!
>
> Does anyone have any practical experience of the Fontera?

It's actually a 'Fonera'. There are ways to get one without subscribing,
they pop up on eBay from time to time for example. This page contains a
few links and more technical info than you could possibly want to know:

http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Fon/Fonera


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Jim Howes wrote:

> Eeyore wrote:
> >
> > Michael Chare wrote:
> >
> >> I was reading the Feb 08 copy of PCadvisor
> >
> > Don't you love the time warp the mags live in ?
>
> Apparently, talking to she that knows (and must be obeyed), the date on
> the magazine is actually the date it is supposed to be removed from the
> shelves, a bit like the date on a loaf of bread.

LOL !


> This made some kind of sense when you could read the January 08 issue in
> December, but being two months out implies either
> A) It is a bimestrial[1] publication
> or
> B) Their tardis is malfunctioning
> or
> C) They are quite mad.
>
> I know which one my money is on.

I think 'C' is correct too.

Graham

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 13:47:32 -0000, "Michael Chare"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>The Fontera does not contain a broadband modem but would appear to be a
>Wireless Access Point. Googling for Fontera I found that one of the most
>popular sites was one telling you how to hack them!
>
> Does anyone have any practical experience of the Fontera?

Fonera.

Have been using one for a while now. Quite a reliable piece of kit.
Only prob is that the computers connected to the private network of
the Fonera do not see and are not seen by the rest of the LAN.
Probably some configuration I am missing, but that does not bother me
much.
No experience with external connections, I live in the sticks and
nobody ever comes here.

Lnz

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