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This Fon stuff really works ;)

Published by bbt January 2nd, 2007 in bernard, fon, runningwithbulls.com, tech, travel, travel galicia, travel spain, wifi

[Of course it does. ]
First post since the beginning of 2007. Happy New Year to you all.

We are still in La Coruña visiting Belén’s family.

We had a fantastic New Year’s Eve. Lots of great food (courtesy of Belén’s mother), and excellent drink.

Now with the “Internet withdrawl symptoms”, I decided I had to try and check my e-mail and check on my ebay bids.

With a quick check of maps.fon.com, then after punching in La Coruña, and you find the full uptodate coverage map of the city.

[Full Fon coverage of La Coruña]

Then narrowing it down to Belén’s neighbourhood, I found lots of Fon points (as can be seen in the image below).

[My Fon travel log updates with the Fon hotspots I have logged onto]

Excellent.

Thanks Fon for saving a) GPRS, and 3G data access, and b) having to trust Internet cafés with my passwords.
(Of course, the Fon network does not encrypt all my traffic end-to-end, but then again, neither does my home Internet access)

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1 Tom Raftery Jan 18th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

That’s all well and good Bernard but the Irish Fon maps aren’t worth a shite.

I was one of the first Irish Fon users and I’m still not on the Irish Fon map.

And don’t get me started on the “free” router offer. I applied several times with valid codes and I am still waiting to receive the Emperors New Routers!
2 bbt Jan 18th, 2007 at 2:20 pm

— That’s all well and good Bernard but the Irish Fon maps aren’t worth a shite.

Hi Tom, by “shite” what do you mean? The coverage is shite? The mapping software is shite? I was a user before you (I would say the first on the Northside, and the second in Dublin..and probably in the country…but that doesn’t make a difference).

I would expect the reason your AP is not on the map, is that it still has the old firmware. Unless its updated, it will never be on the maps.

1. There aren’t many Irish Fon users (well of course!), but also

2. there aren’t many Irish Fon users with the Fon routers with the new firmware. I don’t know which it is exactly.

If the routers don’t have the up-to-date firmware, they are not shown on the fon maps. This (as far as I know) is due to the requirement of the router to register itself “correctly” on the fon network.

Like I said, it works for me. Eircom WiFi network, on the other hand, well lets leave that aside…

Fon seemed to have a few problems in getting things started at the beginning. Too many firmware versions, and it wasn’t made “bombproof” and “techy-proof”. That was their main problem (IMHO).

Anyway, if there is a problem in getting the valid offer codes working, you might contact them, but I know that the offer is over (I think).

ta,
bernard

[NB: All my own opinions of course.]