BTFON

RobH

RobH

RobH

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If you are a BT Total Broadband subscriber and agree to let up to 512Kb of your broadband be used for public access in return you will have free access to all FON access points across the country + world. BT will push a network update to your Home Hub that creates a fully secure SSID on a seperate channel for use by FON subscribers. The public SSID doesn't touch your network and doesn't contribute to bandwidth limits. You are also not responsable for activity on the public SSID (you need a FON acount to use it).

Non BT subscribers can also do this by buying a FON router. Sounds like a good idea if enough people opt in for this. Rather than BT building a wireless infrastructure they are encouraging their customers to build it for them in return for free access to others.

Any thoughts on this?
 
I realise I'm resurrecting a thread here, but I didn't want to start another. I've just found out about this whilst visiting my parents, and I'm more than a little "peeved" to be honest.

I suspect to be on the safe side BT buried this in the small print somewhere, but effectively their router has been turned into a BT FON access point, allowing any member of the public with BT FON to use their router. Not only were they oblivious to this, as the homehub just does it itself, but it also takes control of your own WiFi away from you!!! You can't disable your WiFi whilst BT Fon is enabled, you have to log a request via the BT website to have it removed!!!!!

I know I'm typing this through a haze of red at the moment, but does anyone else think that this is as best cheeky, and at worst downright insulting?
 
I think it's a good idea. Where I live the council are putting wireless access points around the town to allow the whole town wireless internet access.
 
You can activate it through the GUI pennywise, but you can't deactivate it. You either need to submit a request to BT, or do a full factory reset of the router.

I'm not arguing over the thinking behind their actions, I'm arguing about how they have implemented it without clear and open consultation with the users!
 
Probably is a bit cheeky however if BT are going to advertise that there is a Wireless point at that address, the last thing they want is it going off/on all the time. Seems reasonable to me.
 
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