Urban Camping: FON is a WiFi Revolution

Urban Camping

In a foreign country at the end of my marriage, I traveled nomadically for 11 months staying in 24 places throughout Holland, Portugal, Canada, USA, Brazil and Argentina before buying a home.

It made such an impression on me that I intentionally set out on a second nomadic trip to further explore the concepts of mobility, simplicity, and perspective. While doing my graduate degree, I camped in 30 places in 55 weeks. Now I host urban nomads through the Couchsurfing Project.

16 January 2006

FON is a WiFi Revolution

After my last post about my WiFi desires, my friend Bill sent me a link to www.fon.com:

FON is a WiFi revolution.

Our objective: to build a Wifi world.

Our method: to permit all users to synchronize their access points into one: FON.

Pay for connection at home; connect anywhere.

Join the FON movement!

I haven´t read the whole site but it seems like it is a very new ´movement´ and still needs to pick up momentum.

You can join the network as a Linus, Bill or Alien. I relate to the Linus profile ...

We wanna have free connection everywhere. In the street. In bars. In the park. Internationally.

We share our bandwidth with every user that takes the Linus philosophy as their own.

If you join us, you'll have free connection in the whole FON network, even in Bills access points.

... except I don´t yet have bandwidth to share.

Perhaps that will be something to arrange back at home base.

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About Me

Name: Jennifer Metz

Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands

Thinking outside the box
by getting out of my box.

I want mobility:
Get-up-and-go in the global village. Navigation to other vantage points. What does the world look like from there? Is there room to move? Or am I tied down to my stuff?

I want simplicity:
Real needs and wants are fewer than they sometimes seem. 'Accumulation' is as inevitable as death and taxes. Can I prune back the attention-stealing stuff to give space to the useful and meaningful things?

I want perspective:
Understanding of how multi-faceted life is. Consideration of options. Is the world getting smaller? Or is MY WORLD getting smaller? How many viewpoints have I seen so far? Is there a 'road less traveled' or a million billion different roads? Can I 'get out of the woods' and look for multiple angles?

Urban Camping

16 January 2006

FON is a WiFi Revolution

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