On the name thing, I read something on the Wippies support forums that you could rename the access point. Is it possible people are renaming theirs and accidentally making it impossible to tell it's Wippies? If so that's rather a stupid option... :-)


Sorry, yes, obviously this would require a new generation of handsets. If they became available though, presumably this Fon/Wippies model would work much better than it does now?

I would still worry about how the ISPs would react though, which makes it interesting that Saunalahti are doing this because they're an ISP too.

Someone on the Wippies board suggested that Saunalahti should give away free access to anyone who sets up a Wippies router, which might be an interesting way to grow the network quickly.

Like you say though, if the network can't be picked up in the street or nearby buildings, there's no point in building it.