[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox/Unhosted/PageKite for Access Innovation Prize 2012

[Michiel de Jong]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Markus Sabadello
<markus at projectdanube.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Michiel de Jong <michiel at unhosted.org>
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Markus Sabadello
>> <markus at projectdanube.org> wrote:
>> > My understanding is that it would be a transparent proxy, i.e. it
>> > captures
>> > all connections.
>> > So you don't have to configure anything on the client devices, they get
>> > privoxyfied automatically if they use the FreedomBox wifi.
>>
>> OK, so do i understand correctly that the hardware we're targetting
>> will emit a wifi signal? Presumably a person who buys a freedombox,
>> already has a router at home with wifi and probably also between 1 and
>> 4 ethernet sockets. How will they deploy the freedombox? link the
>> freedombox and the router by ethernet (i guess that would dhcp without
>> need for any config on most routers, right?), and reconfigure their
>> laptop and phone to forget the old wifi network and start to use the
>> new freedombox wifi?
>
> Hmm yeah I think that's how I imagined it.
> Of course then people would have 2 wifis, not sure if that's good or bad.
> Good, because I think it would easily work with the setup that most people
> have at home.
> Good also, because you can always choose to NOT use the FreedomBox.
> Bad, because it might be a more complex setup than it needs to be.
> Anyway I would be interested in Nick's opinion.
> Guess there is some overlap with the other thread here (FreedomBox as home
> router).

any decision on this? will we target hardware that is capable of
emitting a (second) wifi signal in the home?