BT Infinity 'free wifi access'/BT Fon

[[TW]Fox]

Hi chaps,

BT Infinity is advertised as having free wifi access at BTOpenworld hotspots. Great.

But you can only get this if you opt into BT Fon.

I've now set this up on my phone with the app and its driving me up the wall.

Effectively when I get in range of the BT Router, the app auto connects and my phone vibrates. I am then on the BTWifi hotspot even though I want to be on my own home wireless network. I only have internet access and cannot, obviously, access my own network. Annoying.

Whats even more annoying is that as I walk around the house the stupid app makes my phone vibrate constantly as it swaps between BTWifi and my home wireless access. This is annoying.

If I disable BTFon/BTWifi on the router, I lose access to the Wifi hotspots.

If I remove the app and/or forget the BTWifi access point on the phone, I have to go through the faff and hassle of reconnect/reforgetting/playing around with the app every time I actually want to use the BTWifi when out and about.

Is there a way around this?

 

[Deleted member 77746]

This is actually a good point. Not sure how to solve it but I turned it off for that same reason.

 

[dovey]

If you manually connect to a BT wifi hotspot you get the option to log in via the browser using your username and password. I used this a fair bit over the weekend, I didn't even know there was an app for it.

 

[ci_newman]

I hadn't really considered this a problem, I just enable the app whenever I need wifi access..

 

[ChrisD.]

I don't use a BT router so don't have the openzone on and my openzone app works just fine.

 

[Tomsk]

I don't use a BT router so don't have the openzone on and my openzone app works just fine.

I've also replaced my HH3 and still have access to hotspots.