I got my Fon Linksys WRT54G access point Tuesday. Not a bad deal for five bucks plus shipping (total: $13). I hope to hook it up this weekend.
Fon, for those of you not in the know, is a service where you agree to share your internet bandwidth with others in exchange for similar privileges on others’ networks. Once I’m sharnig my Fon connection, I can use other Fon connections for free. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
I was going to do this anyway by building a community network, so to get a box preconfigured for 13 bucks is a deal. All I have to do to keep the access point’s price at $5 is to agree to keep it running for a year. So this weekend will be week one of my community network experiment.