Robert, in the surrounding 20 miles or so where I live there are VERY few free hotspots; FON or otherwise. Too rural of an area, which is why I have a 3G modem. ;)

I can’t beleive that as “mobile warriors” you haven’t yet cottoned on to thousands of free spots. The real benefit comes when you download the hotspot details into your TomTom.

As previous post, security is fine with the dual-channel FON, although there is some flakiness with the unit – I prefer to use a Linksys and flash it with the FON software.

Idea behind is that if you did log the traffic and can identify the person behind that specific IP packets this will be ok. And exactly this is what fon is doing. They are logging the traffic on the “public” channel and only let people in that identify by their fon account.

I got one of the routers for free when they were running their promo last year. Like Kevin and Mark, I haven’t hooked it up yet because of security concerns. That and the fact that until recently, we had pretty narrowband broadband DSL. I didn’t want anyone else sucking up our limited bandwidth. We have T-DSL, and they are one of the few companies around here that officially condone bandwidth sharing via FON. Maybe I’ll go for it one of these days.

The security issues that concern me with FON are liability. I’m less concerned with people accessing my intranet using FON, and more concerned with cops knocking on my door one day because of strange traffic coming through my broadband.

I have fon since 1 year, nobody has connect.