FON repeater for all
Antonio Anselmi did a wonderful job and on sourceforge today published the latest release of his worldwide famous Ponte script for fonera wireless repeater.
Now the script is 100% Fon compliant and easily configurable via web interface.
Antonio thanks again for your job on behalf of fon community. ( thanks from fon official maybe won’t come , you have to open secure shell to install your script and this is not allowed by FON 
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Magnus, 
Alex, 
Antonio, and 2 others are discussing. 
skynetbbs 8:40 am on May 2, 2007 Permalink |
Cewl… I saw it allready this morning but hence it’s still in the “beta” phase?
i’ll be checking it out soon…
just one question… are tests only conducted on a “fonera” as uplink…or have their been positive tests to repeat from eg an existing Adsl/wifi router?
skynetbbs 8:43 am on May 2, 2007 Permalink |
Any idea about a “roofnet” implementation
be it mit’s roofnet, or the german OLRS or a Meraki like meshing?
so we can even just put it in the outlet and let it find it’s way to a connecteable uplink and find it’s way to one with an internet uplink without having us reconfigure them when one uplink is rebooting?
antonde 8:44 am on May 2, 2007 Permalink |
@skynetbbs I’m making some test right now. The good thing in new Anselmi’s script is that you can repeat any wifi source and add a third virtual wlan interface with fon hotspot.
The repeater chain is not perfect right now as it still miss the routing daemon to manage a perfect mesh wireless , but another step ahead has been made.
skynetbbs 9:32 am on May 3, 2007 Permalink |
tested it yesterday evening… it couldn’t get an ip from a “MyPlace”?
I’ve emailed Antonio about it…
I’m using WPA2 (verified in status screen) and correct WPA key & ssid?
…
mvg,
Steven
Antonio 5:34 pm on May 3, 2007 Permalink |
@skynetbbs
open http://www.blogin.it/fon/resolver.txt and look for instructions… in next bet0.40 will be fixed
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Antonio
skynetbbs 5:44 am on May 5, 2007 Permalink |
Thanks that worked!!!
Alex 11:02 am on May 19, 2007 Permalink |
Hi there,
I really like the ponte2 script. Everything worked out on the first try.
However, I still have a little problem. I added my fon hotspot to the repeater and yesterday I got a email from the fon support team that my router is not connected to the internet. What is wrong? When I connect to the fonera repeater I am able to surf the net, but apparently the fon people cannot see my router. What can I do?
Alex
Antonio 8:04 pm on May 19, 2007 Permalink |
Hi Alex,
I think this is due to MAC address of VAP ath2 which is different from which is transmitted by VAP ath0 (tun0) in Fonera standard mode. If so, e can make a clone MAC for all ath. Take a look at sender MAC address of FON_AP in Fonera standard mode and in ponte2 mode.
Have a fine week end
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Antonio
Antonio 8:12 pm on May 19, 2007 Permalink |
@Alex
another note Alex, try ponte2FON (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ponte2/) this is a save-and-go FON repeater which transmits from VAP ath0… may be the repeater is seen as a “normal” Fonera…
letr me know your experiences
Antonio
Alex 8:20 pm on June 7, 2007 Permalink |
Hi Antonio,
thanks for your help. I used the pone2FON script and this worked out nicely. No MAC problems anymore. However, one problem persist. Everytime I restart my fonera it doesn’t transmit any SSID and it doesn’t connect to the main router (linksys wrt54g; DD-WRT v23). Do you know why?
Thanks,
Alex
Magnus 7:09 pm on July 2, 2007 Permalink |
This seems like a great way but i just want to use it as a w-lan router that can access the same subnet as my wired computers, is that possible?