BT Openzone & Fon Access?

Following the announcement that there is now no limit accessing the two I tried it out at home on my hub, both the openzone and Fon access points are available but I am unable to connect, iphone and laptop are not being given an IP address, both work 100% when connecting to my own SSID.
I have previously been able to connect, however this was when we were capped at so many minutes.
Fon web page still showing me as opten in.
Is this a security issue so I do not use them on my own home hub? need to ensure it works for a trip I have planned.
Thanks in advance.

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BT Openzone/ BT FON Access when Roaming

I now have my [email protected] Userid and password so should have access to Hotspots in the UK.
My question is Do I have access to the partner sites worldwide? BT Openzone shows Partner sites all over the world.
What do I need to acess these Hotspots when Roaming?
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Hi IMJ, Yes, I have had a look at the FON site which is very good.
I was really asking about access to the BT Openzone "Partners" internationally. See this site under ROAMING:
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Openzone/Fon doesn't work

I Have just written to customer care, and will cut and paste here to see if anyone can help.
I have enabled BT FOn on my homehib on my pitiful 1,5mb connection in the hope of using openzone and Fon networks when i'm out and about.
In fact this is one of the reasons i was stupid enough to sign up to a 18month contract.
I have the Android app on my smartphone, and it connects about 50% of the time while i'm out and about.
The real issue though is the fact that neither Openzone or Fon work on my laptops. It appears to be fundamentally flawed.
On the Dell inspiron, i can connect to Openzone about one in a hundred goes.
On my Acer, i can't connect AT ALL.
Have tried internet explorer, Chrome and Firefox, on both machines.
I have tried setting the connection to both public and home.
I have tried putting the openzone website in the browser bar, but nothing works.
I'm more than happy to upload both machines attempting to connnect on YouTube if you wish.
The problem is that when you "connect" to the openzone or fon connection, it does connect, then says "no internet connection" and the browser bar just shows a DNS error.
What is the point in having a btopenzone internet connection, with no internet connection.
Please for the sake of my sanity explain how i go about getting the service (that i'm payng for) working.

The wifi advertising hype is fair enough if you are away from home with access to a known hotspot, but it's a pretty unreliable service if you want internet access on the fly. 3G, either on a mobile phone or through a dongle, is a far better option but potentially expensive.
Having said that, if you're a BT BB customer you should be able to connect readily to a working BT hotspot. Can you specify any that are problematic? Bear in mind that the "millions" of BT home user hotspots are useless if the user has the hub switched off, has it sited in an outside toilet with walls 2ft thick, is using a non-BT router, is using up the bandwidth themselves, or has forgotten to pay their BT bill. On the other hand, I find commercial BT WiFi points (mainly Starbucks or wifi-enabled phone boxes) to be very reliable. You don't need to be a BT BB customer to access Starbucks though, so I guess that just leaves the phone boxes!
Personally, I would say that wifi access on the move is no more than a small bonus for BT BB customers; I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to regard it as a major reason to choose BT.
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Bt openzone & Fon home page

I have recently purchased a Samsung galaxy S wifi 5.0. When I try and access the internet I get the Btopenzone URL and the fon home page. I cant seem to get any further access other sites. How would I solve this problem please. I have cleared the history, cookies but it still happens. There is no search box on the fon home page.
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Bobo12 wrote:
I have recently purchased a Samsung galaxy S wifi 5.0. When I try and access the internet I get the Btopenzone URL and the fon home page. I cant seem to get any further access other sites.
Once you've signed in, click menu and select new page. You should then be able to surf the internet
Or why not connect direct to your home hubs SSID, no need to use BTFon/Openzone.
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Allowing BT Fon access.

To permit other people to use my Hub to access the the net via BT Fon or BT Openzone,do I have to remove any passwords from my hub.I know of a couple of people who don`nt mind using other people`s hotspots but are reluctant to allow access to theirs.For me,if you are happy to use others hot spots,you should allow access to your own Kenny

BT Fon/ BT openzone (now being called BTWifi) is transmitted by bt home hubs along with your own private wifi. Yours and the BTfon/BT Openzone are completely separate so the public can't access your personal network.
To enable to BT Fon you will need to register on the BT Fon Website.
Your personal wifi ssid may look like BTHub3-XXXX and should be encrypted. If you have BTfon enabled then a home hub will also transmit BTFon and BTOpenzone-H or BTWifi-with-Fon and BTWifi (BTWifi is the new brand name)
Hope that makes sense
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Bt openzone/FON connection issue

Ok so I often use this specific btopenzone wifi hotspot, used it for a couple hours every now and again for ages. Hit a problem now though my laptoop no longer connects to it. it sees it i click connect but it just keeps coming up no internet connection. Help/ This is the only wifi thing that it dont connect to.

It could be down to the hub2 (if this is being used) as there is a known issue whereby it caches ALL passing wireless devices which then jams the hub and stops the connection to Fon/Openzone - a reset of the hub is the only known cure, though BT are rolling out an update to sort this out.
The other thing is that occasionally and I don't know why, we lose the ability to connect to random hotspots. Without any changes, the ability returns after a few days. Keep trying the same hotspot or as I said earlier, try another one to see if you also can't connect to this one. What about your own hub's Fon/Openzone hotspot, can you connect to this?
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BT openzone/fon and standby on the bt router 3.0

Hi all
so i turned off bt openzone and fon but turned it back on and now it does not show i have tried resetting and everything?
and i put it on powersave and turned it off but is still on
thanks Alexander
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DS wrote:
Hi Alexander and welcome
So you opted out on the BTFon website and then opted back in?
And the hub doesn't show you as active?
Don't panic!! Opt out again and then back in, wait 72 hours and see if it then shows this time.
(sometimes the hub doesn't get sent the opt in signal on the first try)
As a side note: Even though your hub is not showing as active, it doesn't stop you from using other hotspots
Thanks tried this.
Phoned and my router is getting updated this should fix it.

Disabling OpenZone & FON

Bit of a strange one,
We got infinity 13 days ago and have been experiencing wireless drop outs for the last 5-6 days, ive looked at the connection settings in the hub and it says its been connected for 5 days so its definatly the wireless thats playing up, its not just my laptop that loses the connection, 2 others do and trying to play CoD on the ps3 is a nightmare. all equipment still stays connected to the hub, just without internet connection for 1-2 mins.
Ive tried all of the channels and used the wifi channel software to select a free channel thats around my area, ive made all the equipments IP addresses static and still to no joy. all i can think of is that the bt OpenZone and FON, which is being emitted (correct me if im wrong) from the hub at the same time as the internet signal, is conflicting and causing the wireless connection to drop.
We didnt opt into FON or OpenZone but ive read that new customers are automatically opted into this service. is it worth opting out to see if this problem goes away or should i go down other routes so solve it?
Any help welcomed

With regard to your wifi woes:-
In their infinite "wisdom" some technophobe at BT has decided that, apart from subjecting you to 2 networks you don't want or need, they will automatically put them on the same channel as your own network, creating interference between them and causing none of them to work properly.
Unfortunately, this affliction is common in the telecomms industry, where the "bright ideas" of the marketeers come before customer experience and little thought is given to practicality and effectiveness.
"automatic channel selection" is marginally better than the defaults of most routers (channels 1,6, and 11) . . . or at least it would be if it worked. While few other channels were in use around me (verified using 2 network sniffers on separate PCs) it happily chose channel 6 (a bad idea at any time for the reason given above) when there was already another network present on that frequency and none at all on several channels including all of 2-5!! (ideally you want to be 2 channels away from any other network with high signal to noise ratio (SNR))
To then cause channel congestion by placing 3 separate networks on the same channel from the same router with the same signal strength is utter lunacy.
Congrats BT - another result from the ministry of **bleep** design!

BT FON access for subaccount holders

Hi
Firstly I will appogies if this has been asked before but I couldn't find the thread.
I have BT BB option 3 and have used BT Fon sites before with no problems over the years. Now my kids are at that age when they want to use WiFi out & about.
So my question is can the sub accounts users, i.e. the family members who have BT email addresses as part of my main account log on to FON Wifi and if so how?
Thanks

Petsulli wrote:
Andy
I was commenting on the ability for what looks like multiply devices to access the BT Fon network and the BT standard Broadband using the same username/email address and password as a means of authentication.
Just to make sure there was no fluke with using the same HH I have logged on to a nearby FON AP and now have three instances of me connected to the the Internet simultaneously.
Presumably as long as your email and password are validated by the BT server connection is permitted. I suspect there must be a limit?
Hi again.
As I mentioned, the BT Broadband connection authentication is not done on a username, it is done on the phone connection (as long as a correct syntax is used for the "username"). BTFon access "is" done on the primary email address.
You can happily use any BTinternet email address as the username for the usual broadband connection, only the domain portion is used.
However as you've implied that you have accessed BTfon using the same username/password for more than one connection, then that happily answers your other question for mutiple access. As to whether there's a limit, then I expect a Moderator could kindly find out.
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BT Openzone/FON Problems on iPod

Hello.
About 2 weeks previously, BT Openzone worked fine. I switched to using my home hub (also a bt product).
When I swapped back to BT Openzone, it would take several restarts for it to "connect".
After it "connected", the internet would not work saying that there is no connectivity. Meaning that even though my iPod says i'm connected and gives a strong bar signal it is not connected.
Perhaps I'm missing something?
Thanks,
Chris.

Can't even get it to show the false connect icon any more. I click "BTOpenzone", it marks it with a tick (meaning it's connected)
I then wait...and wait...and wait...and nothing happens. After 6 restarts the false connection icon pops up.
I then go into Safari and it says it cannot display the page because I'm not connected to the internet.

BT Openzone/Fon

I am using the iPhone app to try to get mobile wifi and the hotspot finder says there are about 10 hotspots within about 200m of my location but my phone isn't picking any of them up - I have never yet been able to get mobile BT except at home where I use the hub anyway - anyone got any ideas how I can use the mobile wifi please?!!

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Cannot access Openzone or Fon sign-on page

I have BT Infinity Option 2 and am opted-in to the BT Fon community (I have checked this) and I want to use Openzone/Fon on an upcoming trip so tried testing it here at home.
I can see both Openzone and Fon on my list of available networks, and can connect to both with a strong signal (probably from my own HH3!). However, neither option gives me Internet access so I am unable to load the Openzone login page to enter my BTInternet username and password. I'm guessing it's lack of these that is causing the lack of Internet access, but that's a chicken & egg situation!
I'm sure my hub's internet connection is not maxed out because the only other computer using it in the house is the one I'm typing this on, and I'm not downloading anything.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Using Win 7 32-bit, IE9 on a laptop (which works fine with my normal BT Infinity connection)
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Nah, I doubt it's BTNP blocking as other forum users have other AV installed and they still can't connect.
If I'm honest, I'd have to say that the bug on the HH2 has now made it into the HH3
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If you really want to, a factory reset of your HH3 would prove this, though you lose any user changes to the hubs set up.
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Access to BT Openzone on iPhone 4

Help please..............I have an iPhone4 with the BT FON app on it. I am (and have been) a BT Total Broadband subscriber for many years. I have 'opted in' to BT FON/Openzone from my HomeHub. I can 'see' Openzone/BT FON WiFi icons on the iPhone when I am not at home but when I go to log in, either on the Openzone or BT FON, and enter my normal BT Broadband username and password it merely just junks me back to the log in page again (and again and again!).
Am I missing something here? Being a BT Total braodband subscriber surely I do not have to buy minutes/new user name etc? Do I have to have registered anywhere? How can I gain access? Help PLEASE!
Many thanks in anticipation.

Hi bloxidgp
You've stated in your original message that you are connected to btopenzone / btfon. this is your problem, because you only have a local connection to the access point, the btfon app is unable to verify your logon details. You will need to connect to your bt hub first then follow the instructions set out in the app.
Once the logon details have been verified and you have accepted the license aggreement you can come out of the app and reselect openzone / fon as your network from the iphones settings menu and then toggle back to the app. the app will then show you connected to bt openzone / fon.

BTTB Option 3 and Openzone access

i've had bttb option3 for 6 months but am a relative beginner and for the first time tried to access bt openzone free minutes on my laptop at a starbucks yesterday (ok - i don't get out much). i understodd it was a case of simply using my bttb email address and password and hey presto. but openzone did not recognise it and the bt totalbroadband radio button took me to bt fon landing page and i have not registered for bt fon so that did not work. i thought bt fon access was not needed to use the bt openzone facility - what am i doing wrong? thanks for any advise as i am sure this has been covered before.

I would contact 08000223322 and speak to Openzone help it could be for some reason you are not opted in, they should get it sorted within minutes, they did for me
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