Setting Home Hub To private

cit_k

Kimberley wrote: »

My sons friends have had their Laptops connected to my Hub, the ones I trust anyway. When my son comes home from holiday tomorrow i'll ask him.

Its not going to be your router/internet, the most probably cause is someone has physically typed that email address on your laptop at some point.

spannerzone

The home hubs can also act as part of BT's Fon and Openzone wifi network - basicall many millions of BT's customers hubs act as not only a password security protected wifi for the owner but offers other BT/Fon customers to log into your hub to get access.

Note that BT have cleverly designed the hub to do several things: firstly it's a secure adsl modem router, secondly a part of the wifi capability allows other users to log onto their own BT or Fon account and use your connection for their use (like a hotspot) - this usage is seperated from the home owners account, usage and computers. You can opt out of this shared arrangement I believe.

It does not create a security risk as the home hub/public hub are essentially 2 seperate things although 1 box does it all.

So 1 BT hub may output 3 wireless network names (SSID's) such as BThomehub 12234, BTFone 12342, BT Openzone 3453512 - all will use the same channel, have sequential MAC addresses and all vanish when you switch off the 1 BT hub.

It's possible (a guess) that if you look at the hub's list of connected devices you may see your own and external ones that conneted via Fon/Openzone connection option.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4152-bt-openzone-hits-one-million-hotspots.html