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Connected Internet: BT Fon Launched: The World’s Largest Wi-Fi Community

  • vincent · 2 years ago
    Wow, that's an marveleous strategy. Now I understand the community in the title.
  • me · 2 years ago
    BT fanboi!
  • Zath · 2 years ago
    Now this is rather interesting, sounds like a great community to be part of and the benefits sound good - the more cynical and concerned side of me would question what would be the legal position for any 'dodgy' stuff going on through the shared portion of your connection?
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    To connect to the routers users will probably have to authenticate themselves, so I'm guessing that BT will know,. But, it would be interesting to see who the RIAA or anyone else who's tracking IP addresses blames for any illegal activity - interesting.
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    I've worked it out Zach. From the FAQs:

    It is extremely secure. Traffic passes through separate channels; visitor and home-user traffic are separated. From a security perspective, it is as if they have separate networks connecting them to the Internet. This ensures that visitors cannot use BT FON to connect directly to the local home-user network (or vice versa). It also means that all visitor network activity and all home-user network activity are clearly distinguished and attributed to the correct user, ensuring that home users cannot be blamed for the activities of visitors (or vice versa).
  • Chris · 2 years ago
    will be interesting to see how many people opt in
  • Zath · 2 years ago
    Now that's good to hear, looks like BT have been doing some forward thinking in that area - sounds like a great idea to boost the UK's wifi network then!
  • mauritian blog · 2 years ago
    This is what we can say e-sharing. :)
  • Make Money Online · 2 years ago
    Its great to have free access but what does BT get out of it. Will it really increase their subscriber base? But there may not be enough bandwidth to share in high traffic areas.
  • Everton · 2 years ago
    It helps Bt justify the premium for their broadband service, as well as attracting new subs/lowering churn.
  • abhishek · 2 years ago
    its quite impressive and i just wish it comes to my country quite soon too.