La Fonera wireless router
During my browsing of Something Awful’s coupons forum, I noticed an offer for a free “La Fonera” wireless router. The concept of this device is that it’s an 802.11b/g router with custom OpenWRT firmware, which creates two separate SSID’s:
- FON_(accesspoint), which is an open WLAN that allows anyone to connect
- MyPlace, a WPA or WPA2-encrypted WLAN that is “private use”
I figured it’d be a useful device to physically isolate my network from unknown PC’s, since the public WLAN doesn’t allow connection to other PC’s on the internal network by default.
Some pictures of the packaging and device follow, as well as my specific configuration changes:
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