BT Fon shows computers on my HOME network!!

Hi everyone -
Our HomeHub came already set up for BTFon and we hadn't really noticed ... until we started to see other computers on our HOME network! I have a mac and the people using our BT Fon are appearing in the sidebar on Finder - should they be able to get onto my Home network? I thought BT Fon was a separate network ... does anyone know why this is happening? I have reset the HomeHub and changed the password - and I'm not on BT Fon but on my HomeHub when I can see the other users.
Thanks!

Hello Avenir,
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Ok - the good news is that you are *NOT* connected to Fon. I'm also pretty sure that your Homehub is ok - the only thing I would do is change the WPA password on the Homehub to something different than the Factory setting.
You can do this by going to:
http://192.168.1.254
W for Wireless Security.
Type a new password, and write it down on a Post-it note. Put the key into the Wireless Key box and click Apply. You will then need to use this same key in the Airport setup.
Any hosts which were connecting to your Wireless network now cannot be unless they can guess that password or have a lot of time on their hands.
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If the hosts then show up again after we have changed the password, we have problems with Software on the Mac:
In this event, the bad news is that you might have some software installed on your Mac which is connecting/allowing your to connect to remote hosts (almost certainly not Fon hosts). It may possibly allowing remote hosts to connect to your machine. Is VPN software installed?
First of all check the information on those remote hosts:
Press cntrl and also left click on each of the hosts in the Finder. Navigate to Get Info. See if it says anything (I suspect it won't but it might give us some clues).
Check whether you have VNC installed:
Finder->Applications->(Real or Open or Tight)VNC.
Remove it unless you use VNC to connect to remote machines.
If it were me and my Mac, I'm afraid I would reinstall OS X (after backing up all my data from /Users onto a USB/Firewire drive), because something fishy is happening at this point and my machine is connecting to who knows what where.
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Hope this helps. My opinion is that the machines will show up after you have changed the Wireless password. I suspect you have some Remote Viewing Software installed which is finding and allowing you to connect to remote Macs.

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