um,free?

Sounds too good to be true, where's the catch?

Now I'm starting to miss wifi in the E50...

A catch could be the legal regulations. Make sure you can't be held responsible for other's surfing in your country.
I think over here in Germany quite a lot of people (including myself) didn't actually become a Fonero because the legal situation was unclear - at least there were lengthy discussions on the net (should I log IPs, would FON have to provide a different infrastructure etc.) and none provided sufficient information to really clear up my concerns.

An additional hint ;-) http://mobilesociety.typepad.com/mobile_life/2006/11/nokia_nseries_d.html

I've only had one visitor in my FON WLAN until now. I guess this doesn't work very well in suburbs, like most of Espoo in Finland.

A couple of weeks ago I spent the whole week in Barcelona during MS TechEd. According to the FON map, there's supposed to be lots of FON hotspots in the city. During the week, I couldn't find even one, even though I had HotSpot Finder scanning for access points in E70.

Hi Tommi (and other readers),

Someone asked where is the catch? Well the only "catch" *could* be in your ISPs AUP (Acceptable Usage Policy) which *could* say you are not allowed to share your Internet access.

Now, if you have a WiFi hotspot already in your house, and have left it open, then technically, your doing that already ;)

I have been running a Fon-spot in my house in Dublin city centre for the past year, and all is ok.

Tommi: I enjoy the site, always learn stuff! Say hi to J-P.

kiitos,
bernard

Hi Tommi (and other readers),

Someone asked where is the catch? Well the only "catch" *could* be in your ISPs AUP (Acceptable Usage Policy) which *could* say you are not allowed to share your Internet access.

Now, if you have a WiFi hotspot already in your house, and have left it open, then technically, your doing that already ;)

I have been running a Fon-spot in my house in Dublin city centre for the past year, and all is ok.

Tommi: I enjoy the site, always learn stuff! Say hi to J-P.

kiitos,
bernard

Thanks bernard. Just subscribed to your blog :)

"A catch could be the legal regulations. Make sure you can't be held responsible for other's surfing in your country."

This is very true, there are potential legal problems here if someone uses your access point to download or upload illegal material.

Also, if you use someone else's access point, and they upload or download illegal material themselves, they might claim you did it.

None of this is certain, but it's definitely worth getting an answer to before opening your access point to everyone else's traffic.

I think it is a very good thing for the people in my city, Helsinki to get a Fon AP. This because here the public WLAN is really missing. In this way all citizens of Helsinki could make a strong point for the bad situation with the free public WLAN. For example out neighbor city Tallinn allready has a public free WLAN-network. Even in some smaller cities in Finland the situation with free public WLANs is much better than in the Helsinki-region.

Hi anon,

I was in Helsinki recently for work and I found the exact same thing.

Municipal/Free/Cheap WiFi was really lacking in Helsinki.

Particularly seeing as its (one) of the homes of Nokia! :)

I thought there might be some cool wifi operation going on there but it was slightly disappointing.

Lets hope it changes.

regards,
bernard
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