A question from UK WiFi network BT/FON
The BT/Fon advertises this Free WiFi net work created through a network they claim freely available throughout world.
The Fon site claims the following: +As a member of the Fon community, you agree to share a little bit of your WiFi at home, and get free roaming at Fon Spots worldwide in return. Sharing WiFi with Fon is safe and secure , and you wont even notice when others are connected because Fon only uses a tiny portion of your bandwidth.+
Has anybody with experience if the iPad works seamlessly in those Free WiFi net works?
Regards
BTFon uses the Home Hub 2 which has two built in WiFi transmitters .
One is your own use with WPA security the second is the Fon bit.It has a WEP security code.
Your internal own network ALWAYS has bandwidth priority and depending on your adsl input and distance from a BT exchange/Green box will give you something between 2mb and advertised maximum of 20MB ( Don't expect this to be achieved via copper local loop- Tops are 12-15mb).
The BT fon service available to home broadband subscribers and Orange Mobile gives you a log in user name and password, and is just an extension of the BT Openzone hotspot service.
BT can identify all subscribers accordingly and it is a secure link (In so far as WEP can be considered secure)
The BTfon user and the Home Hub 2 subscriber can NOT see each other at any time as the sub net masks differ.
You Have NO access to modify the BTFon bit as it is firmware locked.
However you rarely get much more than half to three quarters of a mb connection because you don't know how far you are from the base station and as said above the user has priority.
I have connected to a few BTFon services with both my iPhone and iPad in several locations around London but you usually get better speed over 3G !
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