La Fonera 2.0

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Fonera 2.0 WiFi router, combines all the revolutionary WiFi sharing and money making features of FON with home networking. Fonera 2.0 has a USB port that allows users to connect an external hard drive and other USB devices. This enables users to share data wirelessly, upload videos or photos automatically to YouTube, Flickr, Picasa and Facebook, or download* torrents or files directly from BitTorrent, RapidShare, and Megaupload without a computer running at the same time. Additional features available with the Fonera 2.0 include the ability to backup files via WiFi to a hard drive, print, access a remote webcam, and connect an HSDPA or 3G dongle and emit WiFi. Fonera 2.0 is based on open source and developers are encouraged to create and share additional applications.

Fonera 2.0 maintains all the features of previous FON WiFi routers. Once connected, it creates two WiFi signals, one private and one public, that allow for a secure, wireless Internet connection at home and free access at FON Spots worldwide. Fonera owners can also choose to make money by selling FON WiFi access passes or letting guests roam at their FON Spot.

1 Description
2 Technical Specifications
3 Use of USB Devices
4 Firmware Releases & Update Instructions
5 LED Status description
6 Plugins
- 6.1 FON plugins
- 6.2 Third party plugins
7 Compatibility Lists
8 Developers Community
9 Related Pages

Description

La Fonera 2.0

Fonera 2.0 is a 2 Ethernet Port and 1 USB port cool Wireless router. It comes with an Internet port to connect to your existing broadband service, an additional LAN port to connect a wired device to your network and a USB port. Fonera 2.0 is easy to install, offers data transfer rates of up to 54Mbps, and works with all of your WiFi-ready devices (laptops, phones, MP3 players, etc.). The standard range is between 10-50 meters depending on the environment.

The Fonera 2.0 is intended to be a Liberator of your desktop computers by being able to both execute applications that you usually need to run in background on your computers and to help you share USB devices between the notebooks connected to your Fonera 2.0, like USB Disks, USB Scanners, USB Printers or Webcams (Not all USB Devices supported).

In addition to all that, Fonera 2.0 also allows you to get Roaming privileges to the whole FON Network by sharing part of your bandwidth at home, and also allows you to make some money from the visitors who still don´t share their connection.

Technical Specifications

La Fonera 2.0 Front

Model Name: FON FON2202
Dimensions:93.5 mm x 25.5 mm x 110 mm (excluding antenna)
Antenna Connector:RP-SMA connector (reverse SMA)
USB Port: USB A-type Receptacle (USB 2.0)
Antenna: External detachable antenna (1,5dBi)
Authentication: WEP 64bit/128 bit, WPA, WPA2, WPA mixed
Encryption: TKIP, AES, Mixed
Network Standard Support:IEEE 802.11b / 802.11g (up to 54 Mbps)
Frequency Range: 2412 MHz~2462MHz (802.11b/g, Channel 1~Channel11)
Maximum output power: 112.460mW
Ports: 1 Ethernet WAN port (10/100Mbps) for internet + 1 Ethernet LAN port (10/100Mbps) for computer connections and other devices (network printer, storage, etc.)
SSIDs: One public (named FON_FREE_INTERNET by default) non-encrypted and one private (named MyPlace by default) encrypted with WPA-PSK
Platform / frequency: Atheros AR2315 @ 180MHz
Flash: 8MB / Ram: 32MB
Wireless NIC: Atheros SoC, LAN Switch: Marvell 88E6060
bootwait: Redboot*
Serial: Yes JTAG: Yes USB: Yes

Use of USB Devices

La Fonera 2.0 Back

USB devices are Plug 'n Play: you plug them they appear in your dashboard!

We advise connection of USB devices only through a USB 2.0 HUB powered externally. Because:

USB 1.1 devices do NOT work unless they're plugged to a USB 2.0 HUB
A non powered one might cause malfunctioning if there are too many devices, especially USB hard drives that need power to spin the discs.

Firmware Releases & Update Instructions

See Firmware Update Instructions for instructions of how to apply these updates.

LED Status description

LED	color	activity	description
INTERNET	green	solid	cable connect on internet port
INTERNET	green	strobing	WAN activity
COMPUTER	green	solid	cable connect on computer port
COMPUTER	green	strobing	LAN activity
WIRELESS	green	blinking 3s	wireless on and working
WIRELESS	orange	solid	Someone is connected to your Fonera
WIRELESS	green	strobing	wireless activity
WIRELESS	orange/green	blinking	wireless crash (to be confirmed)
WIRELESS & POWER	orange/green	blinking	Fonera in failsafe mode
USB	green	solid	USB storage device connected
USB	green	blinking	USB activity
POWER	orange	slow blinking	booting
POWER	orange	solid	connecting to WAN
POWER	green	solid	Fonera on and working

Plugins

FON plugins

OLPC 1.0 Plugin Allows La Fonera 2.0 to become a node of the mesh network supported by OLPC devices
- Requires a special Mesh Dongle which is not yet for sale
DynDns 1.1 Plugin
FONbackup/Java Allows you to backup (incremental) data from one drive to another.
Audiocli Plugin Allows you to stream music from your network to a simple USB sound device. Here's a small manual
- Only available upto firmware version 2.2.4
- Tested on version 2.2.5+ succesfully
Printer Plugin
Webcam Plugin
Firefox Fonera 2 Addon

Third party plugins

Proxy redirector from FrancoFon Allows you to redirect the traffic going through the La Fonera 2.0 to a proxy. You may choose to redirect the traffic coming from the private signal, the public one or both.
Jamendo Enjoy the Internet Radio station Jamendo on your Fonera 2 equiped with a low cost usb music stick. More details & screenshots
Neorouter Ideal Remote Access & VPN Solution
FonHome - The X10 Domotica Project
Owbox An other Domotica project (with energy monitor), open source, open hardware, based on a wireless sensor network
Rapidshare downloader Application that allows automated download of files from Rapidshare file hosting service without premium account.
Wake On LAN Wake up your computer or other devices connected through the LAN port.

Compatibility Lists

Tested Webcams or Webcam compatibility List
Printer Compatibility List
3G/3.5G modem Compatibility List
Soundcard compatibility List
Scanner Compatibility List (Not supported anymore)
Bluetooth Compatibility List (Not yet supported)

Developers Community

fonosfera blog will keep you updated about the work made on the La Fonera 2.0 firmware: http://blog.fonosfera.org
A development and support mailing list is available, so independent developers can get in touch with FON ones as well as with each other. Subscribe here
Many Fonera 2.0 developers meet each other on IRC - Freenode: #fonosfera
A dedicated sub-forum was created at boards.fon.com for discussions around the La Fonera 2.0
You can report bugs on the bug tracker
You can download the last source code from fonosfera's SVN, independent developers can get a folder with writing privileges to develop their plugins upon request.
If you have good reason to not make your communication public, you may contact directly the developers writing to fonera20 [] fon.com Keep in mind that most of the time the mailing list will be more useful as the answers will be public and can benefit to other developers.