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

abhishek — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:53:55 -0000

its quite impressive and i just wish it comes to my country quite soon too.

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

Everton — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:43:05 -0000

It helps Bt justify the premium for their broadband service, as well as attracting new subs/lowering churn.

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

Make Money Online — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:36:24 -0000

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.

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

mauritian blog — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:01:28 -0000

This is what we can say e-sharing. :)

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

Zath — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:23:11 -0000

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!

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

Chris — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:51:20 -0000

will be interesting to see how many people opt in

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

Everton — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:23:22 -0000

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).

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

Everton — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:24:18 -0000

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.

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

Zath — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:10:52 -0000

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?

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

me — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:52:28 -0000

BT fanboi!

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

vincent — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:33:41 -0000

Wow, that's an marveleous strategy. Now I understand the community in the title.