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Fon routerBefore christmas foneros was giving away free routers to countries in europe. The router itself is tiny: it fits nicely in the palm of my hands (and i have small hands).

Included is a 5 v Ac/Dc converter and a simple user manual.

Anxious to see what was inside i started dissassembling. On the way i  took some pictures for you all to see so read on!

 

 

As the router is small, it does not provide any additional LAN ports. One WAN port , DC input and the External RP-SMA connector with antenna can be seen in the picture below.

Back of fon

 

Disassembling the foneros router

 

Remove the mounting screws that are located under the rubber paddings:

Mounting screws of the FON

Remove the antenna:

Removing RP-SMA connector

Pry off the white casing using a flathead driver:

Removing fon casing

Below you can see the top side of the main board. It seems to have one additonal antenna soldering point.

There is a serial port connector next to the two capacitors.

Picture of board top

The bottom side of the board:

The bottom side of the board

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6 comments to “Inside the fon router”

  1. Comment by » Accessing serial console on the Fon : SoDoItYourself.com:
    Friday, February 9th 2007 at 2:13 am

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  2. Comment by stoppamej:
    Wednesday, March 7th 2007 at 6:56 pm

    Guess your warranty is void now ;)

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  4. Comment by Adsense Referrals:
    Monday, April 30th 2007 at 11:54 am

    Nice quality pics.

  5. Comment by Snuff:
    Monday, May 21st 2007 at 11:16 pm

    Nice one, wish i could get one for free

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    Saturday, May 10th 2008 at 6:02 pm

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