BT Steal Your Internet !!!

Gloomendoom

Openzone hotspots cost money to use.

Fon hotspots are different and totally free to use...

if you have agreed to share your own. e.g. You leave Fon enabled on your BT router or have a separate Fon router.

littleboo

flexrider wrote: »

littleboo wrote: »

Having FON on doesnt affect your sync speed, it just enables the additional wireless functionality in the router.

I find that hard to beleive because you share on adsl yout speed with other people on a network exchange so depending on ratio, if 200 people are on bt broadband around your way there using the less connection speed, so when your thinking your getting 8mg you probelly getting 2 or 4 mg per sec because of their exchange, dont beleive try out your broadband around 4.30-8.30 with a connection speed test online (google it) you will see your upload speed is lame and your download speed is not 8mg,


bt still dont use fiber optic like virgin media, its all a loop at there exchange, making all the speeds the same depending on how far you live form your exchange centre,

I've no idea what you're saying here or how that relates to enabling FON on a home hub. The remains, enabling FON does not change the sync speed.

kondormid

FON is one of the best ideas for sharing I have ever witnessed. I am not a BT customer, I have my own seperate FON router though no one ever uses it because the amount of FON spots where I live is incredible. Cable TV never reached us, so a lot of people have BT hubs here. Stick "WS6" into zip/post code on http://maps.fon.com/ and you will see what I mean, especially if you zoom out a little and remember those are just postcodes covered. A lot of them have 2 or 3 FON spots active which you can see by clicking on them.

Without FON, I would be forced to pay for wifi access when away from home. My £25 PDA that I got from Ebay would not get used much at all.

With FON, I get to catch up on the latest news, read forums on it, listen to the odd podcast and even have a little chat to my friends via skype. I can even check out google maps to get my bearings in an area new to me or search for a phone number if I want.

If you are a BT customer, then surely the fact it gives you free wifi when away from home and also an unmetered 512k connection makes up for the fact that occasionally I might use some of your spare bandwidth to catch up on the news?

To me, having bought a router specifically so I can share my wifi and gain access to others who are willing to share the thought of turning it off seems crazy.

Imagine how much cheaper life would be if we could share everything that we pay for but is wasted, those spare shelves in the oven when your cooking for example. It is no different, it is just sharing as far as the owner of the router is concerned.

As for the original poster and those other nay sayers well it is up to them. In general, it works like this...
If they want to share their internet via a FON enabled router they can use mine for free and I will be very happy that I have just saved someone else a few quid on wifi access.
If they do not share their own internet via a FON router then they can still use mine but they will have to pay for the FON. Actually, if they are willing to watch a video they can have ten mins for free just to see if they like it.

I hope they do like using mine though, they might decide to share their own network too and join in the sharing community that is FON and that in turn saves us all money. I am certainly for it and can not understand the logic behind those who hate sharing.

For those not on BT who would like to get free wifi, google FON and get a FON router for about £30. Then by securely sharing your internet you can use my wifi and 500,000+ other UK hotspots for free, and even more abroad.

BrianPie

I recently found out about BT FON.

For security and health reasons, I dont want wireless.

After 3 days with their poorly trained "helpdesk" in india they tell me it is not possible to disable BT FON or wireless.

I am not happy with BT. I dont want a mobile phone transmitter near my home. I dont want a base transmitter in my home.

middlepuss

ComplexP wrote: »

I used to turn my router off at night but then my speeds dropped. Turned out that the exchange was seeing it as a dropped connection every night and decided to reduce my speeds to improve stability.

I leave it on all the time now.

So much for being green.

A router uses 8 watts or so. About the same as a low energy light bulb. About £8 a year if you leave it on all the time. So switching it off for 8 hours at night would save you just under £3 a year.

spike7451

BrianPie wrote: »

I recently found out about BT FON.

For security and health reasons, I dont want wireless.

After 3 days with their poorly trained "helpdesk" in india they tell me it is not possible to disable BT FON or wireless.

I am not happy with BT. I dont want a mobile phone transmitter near my home. I dont want a base transmitter in my home.

See here;

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11044/kw/disable%20BT%20Fon/c/346,1238,2694

& here;

http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/12958/kw/disable%20BT%20Fon/related/1

BrianPie

spike7451 wrote: »

See here;

...bt.custhelp.com...2694

& here;

...bt.custhelp.com...1

Yes. I am familiar with those links. They dont help.

I unregistered from BT FON. 48 hrs later, no change.

After following the instructions from the support desk in India, I was told it is not possible to turn wireless off.

It seems in the upgrade of BT's hub, BT removed the option of switching wireless off.

Having a BT hub is like having a BT base station in your home.

macman

Solution is to use your own router connected by ethernet, with the wireless disabled. You are not obliged to use a HomeHub to get BT Broadband-it's not rocket science.
Or you could just cut the antennae off?

littleboo

I can turn wireless off on my hub. It may be that while you are registered with Fon, the option is disabled - I'm currently not regsisterd with Fon, having trouble enabling it.

BrianPie

macman wrote: »

Solution is to use your own router connected by ethernet, with the wireless disabled. You are not obliged to use a HomeHub to get BT Broadband-it's not rocket science.
Or you could just cut the antennae off?

1) So your solution is to ignore the fact that BT prevents me turning off wireless and go out and pay for another router?

I could do that but am slightly unhappy about paying for something AGAIN after already paying for a BT router.

2) Your other solution suggests cutting off the attenae. 2 problems with this, cutting one off doesnt prevent a transmitter from trying to transmit and secondly, it doesnt have one.