[MLB-WIRELESS] alternative to meraki-mini

[Dan Flett]

Hi Rohan,

Yeah, the Fon routers look good - especially since they are cheaper (US$40 
vs Meraki's US$50).  But they have the following problems:

I don't think there is a weatherproof version.  Where did you hear that they 
were weatherproof?

They don't support Power-Over-Ethernet at all.

They don't ship to Australia yet.

You need to register as a FON member to buy the unit.

I think for the extra US$10 I'd rather get a Meraki with PoE support.

Cheers,

Dan

>From: "Rohan Malhotra" <rohanmalhotra86 at gmail.com>
>To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] alternative to meraki-mini
>Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:31:27 +1000

>i was reading through the post about the melbwireless on the techtalkradio
>forums and some british guy mentioned these babies:
>
>http://www.fon.com/en/
>
>sounds awesooooome.
>
>the standard one is weatherproof, markedly cheaper and according to this:
>
>http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Fon/Fonera#head-502f55fd07aa0b4317f616f2dc0c8552eb161749
>
>is almost identical to the meraki.
>
>so basically same features, much cheaper cost and wider distribution.
>
>as i still haven't got around to getting myself a decent router yet, i'm
>thinking about getting one of these if they're wholly openwrt compatible or
>at least if i can adapt them to my needs with the melbwireless project.
>
>tell us what you think!?


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