Mobile phone being able to access secured homehub
Has anyone else had this issue and/or know how this can be fixed?
My neighbour's brother has an iPhone4 and somehow managed to access my password protected homehub. I contacted the relevant BT number and the person answering the phone just changed the password (and managed to do this incorrectly so that I couldn't access it!!) I'm waiting for the visitor to come back with his phone so that I can see if he can replicate the problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
He is probably accessing BTOpenzone or BT FON which your hub is most likely transmitting by default.
These channels are un-encrypted, but require the user to pay, if they do not have any free Openzone minutes as part of their phone package. I think iphone users may have this included.
He will not be able to access any of the home hubs other channels, so there is nothing to worry about.
If you can see your wireless channels, you will see BTOpenzone and BT FON, as well as you normal home hub id.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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