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I was looking at how to turn off the default BTWiFi SSID as I simply didn't want it. For those of you who don't know, BT's routers make 3 SSIDs called BT-(random numbers here) as your main private network, BTWiFi as a free hotspot for anyone near your router and BTWiFi-X for profile login free WiFi via iPhones. I wanted to turn off both of the free WiFi SSIDs as I didn't want or need them so I was looking. People on the BT forums were asking how to turn it off because of "radiation poisoning" and then wondering why their radiometer (please correct me I couldn't think of the word lol) doesn't go down just because they thought turning off the SSID would make it SAfEr for their tinfoil hats.

How does that BT stuff work if someone were to do something illegal on the free wifi that's connected to your router? No way would I like my connection being shared with the public i'd cut the bloody traces on the PCB if there's no way to turn it off in software :D
 
How does that BT stuff work if someone were to do something illegal on the free wifi that's connected to your router? No way would I like my connection being shared with the public i'd cut the bloody traces on the PCB if there's no way to turn it off in software :D
Yea, afaik it's got it's own IP address to it's self and the service is heavily monitored by BT. It's managed as if it was say a Free WiFi hotspot in a cafe, but at your house, in your router. It has saved my bacon a few times but i rarely use it (from other ppls routers). It's limited to 5Mbps of your connection and that 5Mbps has to be shared round all he devices connected to it so it doesn't take too much in that regard. I think if your connection is slower than 10Mbps it doesn't activate but the only way to turn it off if your connection is faster than that is opting out of BT WiFi as a whole which seems a tad ridiculous.
 
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