The New Whisher has arrived, now with WiFi Out!
After several months gathering feedback and reactions from our users, we decided to give Whisher a face lift, include the best ideas, and offer an improved, simplified WiFi experience.
So, what’s different?
Whisher is now a plugin instead of a standalone application. Why try to reinvent the wheel? Users already know how to use WiFi. Whisher is now completely integrated into the operating system, adding the WiFi Sharing and WiFi Out features.
WiFi Out? What is that?
In a few words, 1-Click access to commercial hotspots. Whisher now allows you to get online at more than 60.000 commercial hotspots around the world. It includes WiFi providers like BT Openzone, Orange, AT&T and many more. You can access them all with a unique credit: WiFi Out. Once you have purchased WiFi Out credit, you can simply go to the Starbucks around the corner and connect for a few minutes to check your mail. You don’t need to have a subscription or pay a minimum fee. With WiFi Out, if you don’t connect, you don’t pay!
We are looking for some motivated users in Europe and North America who would like to help us improve the brand new Whisher, for example, by testing WiFi Out, or helping us with bugs that may crop up. In exchange you will get free WiFi at all our commercial locations. If you are interested, send us an email with your details.
What about WiFi sharing?
WiFi sharing is still at the core of the new Whisher. You can contribute to the largest free WiFi network in the world, by registering your home WiFi with Whisher. As always, you can stop sharing at anytime with a single mouse click, and your connection remains encrypted and secure!
Any Mac love?
The Mac version is almost ready, and it will be launched very soon! Most of us at the office are Mac users, so we watch our Windows-toting peers with envy. The developer in charge is on a strict diet of cornflakes, and locked in a filing cabinet until he finishes it.
So is that it?
Not at all! In a few weeks, we will launch mobile Whisher plugin - watch this space. The developers in charge of this version are on an even stricter diet.
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Installing and testing
I am looking for information about how much cost connect throw Whisher to networks like KPN (now I am in Netherlands), but I can’t find anything.
Depends on the company?? KPN, BT, Orange, ….
Nueva versi?n de Whisher…
Whisher ha sacado una nueva versi?n renovada desde cero, donde a?ade nuevas funcionalidades como la de conectarnos a puntos de acceso de pago (hoteles, aeropuertos, starburks…), pero sin pagar suscripciones y pagando solo por los minutos de conexi?n….
Hi there,
…Seems like those who are using windows vista are still left out in the cold?
Any news on the vista-front?
//Adam
Nkieto:
When you get to the hotspot, you will see the associated price displayed next to the signal, on a per-minute basis. Each WISP sets his own per-minute price, so yes, it depends on the operator.
Adam:
We are working hard on getting a Vista version ready, we realize it has been a while without one, but we have basically concentrated on making the whole Whisher 3.0 concept work, before tackling the Vista issue. I could not comment earlier on the delay without giving away what we were doing.
When come version for Ubuntu?
What about Linux version?
So, hi there,
So what happened to the chat idea? Has it died? How about kicking abusive users off? How about monitoring usage?
I like the idea of sharing, but the on/off feature is kind of limited.
Kenjiru: There will not be a Linux version, at least in the near future, as there are certain implications in the handling of WiFi adapters which complicate how Whisher must do things.
Sam: The chat idea has been removed, as we realize that most people already have their own preferred IM clients - this is not to say it won’t be introduced again in the future, but right now, the feedback we were getting was that the product was too complex and difficult to understand. For kicking out abusive users you have private mode, and you will be able to see all sessions in My Account. We will introduce buddy mode again when the basic platform and web interface is stable, with new features like time-scheduled sharing.
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