Any way of getting onto BT Fon as a talk talk customer?

leestafford

hi,
I'm a couple of month into a 24 month talk talk broadband contract.

My family caravan is in the middle of nowhere with no phone signal.

Recently a BT Fon wifi network appeared.

£30 a month is a little bit pricey.

Is there a way I can get into the network by sharing talk talk or is it pay up, become a BT customer or just have no internet?

Thanks in advance

HappyMJ

If you know a BT customer ask if you can use their username and password. You aren't supposed to but why not. It'll save you money.

kwikbreaks

But a Fon router and connect it to your home network....

https://shop.fon.com/en/products/all

leestafford

kwikbreaks wrote: »

But a Fon router and connect it to your home network....

https://shop.fon.com/en/products/all

The link just takes me to BT page - I'll look again - but it's saying that becuase we live in UK to get Fon you have to be a BT customer.

I was expecting to see a universal Fon router too.

kwikbreaks

Not sure why you are seeing that as I get a page showing Fon products.

This is a direct link to the current Fon router you need - https://shop.fon.com/en/checkout/455016

I know this works fine in the UK as I've run a Fon router for many years purely to get access to the Fon network in the UK. There was an annoyance about a year back where they dropped support for the model I had and I was forced to buy the one I've linked to to replace it. #

http://www.digitalham.co.uk/fon-free-wifi-apk/

The Fon app I mention now seems to be freely available again in the UK via the Play store

leestafford

Getting page not found 404, I'll check when I get home on laptop as I'm on iPhone ATM.

Thanks for your help

kwikbreaks

You could try plain http instead as https as Chrome is crossing out the https on mine.

Inner_Zone

Also getting 404, try:

https://shop.fon.com/en/product/fonera-1

kwikbreaks

That works for me too. I suspect my machine must have cookies on it still from when I ordered or maybe the number is just personal to my clicking of the order button.

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Yes it was because I posted the link after clicking Buy rather than the more details link from the first page I linked to.

leestafford

I can get to the page which offers 3 products for sale in a foreign language. No idea which one to buy

kwikbreaks

Well you need the Fonera at €39 but you'll no doubt have issues with going through the checkout too so I'd suggest you use google translate to help you out.

It seems that they have the wrong location based on your IP and simply rebooting your router may get you a different IP that works properly.

Failing all that download TunnelBear and set it to UK then go through the process.