Oliver Thylmann’s Thoughts

So I finally got my new Fonera working with a connection via the old Fon enabled Linksys router. This was really a pain I have to say. The problem is that the Linksys works on the IP 192.168.10.1 and that’s the IP that the Fonera grabs itself too it seems. At the same time it gave my Laptop 192.168.10.111 which is the IP I gave my Mac Mini. All hell broke loose

After lots of changes that didn’t work, and a hack of the box to get SSH access to see what the routing tables are saying (yes this is denied, but please, then make it work out of the box :)), I am finally up and running. The route to the main Linksys just didn’t get created it seems.

Now I set the Fonera to static IP at 192.168.10.2 and then gave the network a new range at 192.168.11.1 and enabled DHCP again. Now I am in on myplace, can ping everything, surf, and even have access to my private LAN which is great because there is a network attached storage there. All seems to be good now.

Oh and by the way. Connecting to wifi.fon.com didn’t work. I just registered via fon.com. Ah well, after registering the buffalo replacement at Ormigo I will then have 4 routers.

I wanted to post about this yesterday but it fell through the cracks, now Martin confirms it. End of next week the Fonera will cost 29 EURs. So if you want to get your fonera for free, I suggest you go at it now. You have a few days left until you will not get it for free anymore.

There will soon be thousands of Foneras in Germany, and hundreds of thousands all over the world. It makes absolute sense to share your nocat. I am sharing it at two places already and if I knew somebody at the airport I would give them 10 and make them a Bill. Sadly I don’t. If you do, go out and get some.

You might just want to have a chat with Fon directly if you believe you can set up a few restaurants in the city center. Check out the “SuperBill Aktion” in Germany.

Georg Pagenstedt blogs about Martin Versavsky’s talk at the Medienwoche Berlin Brandenburg. Lots of interesting stuff in there especially that fon is now burning through 500k EURs a month and are looking at having 500.000 Hotspots in 2008 to break even. I am so happy to be part of the community and am already running two routers here in Cologne. And hey, I beat Georg in my Linus-Fonero number. He’s in the 20s and I am in the 10s, 13095 to be exact. The post has a picture of Martin holding up the Fonera, their own router coming out soon, by the way.

Update: Another bit from this Spiegel Interview. Martin expects each FON Hotspot to earn them 1 EUR a month on average. Very sound numbers I think. All in all it is nice to see an experience entrepreneur talk about numbers a little bit, finding out how he convinced people of his idea at least partly.

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