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I signed up for BT FON on Friday 5th October. During the early hours of Wednesday morning my Home Hub upgraded to 6.2.6.B. This caused a few problems trying to access with a wireless connection but these problems were soon sorted. This morning I received my green tick, so I looked for wireless networks and BT Openzone appeared just next to my Home Hub. I selected Openzone and logged in first time. It works well. :-)

So, if you are parked outside my house, I am now an official Openzone. :nod:
 
I signed up for BT FON on Friday 5th October. During the early hours of Wednesday morning my Home Hub upgraded to 6.2.6.B. This caused a few problems trying to access with a wireless connection but these problems were soon sorted. This morning I received my green tick, so I looked for wireless networks and BT Openzone appeared just next to my Home Hub. I selected Openzone and logged in first time. It works well. :-)

So, if you are parked outside my house, I am now an official Openzone. :nod:
You think this is a wise move...security wise?
What about that car parked outside your home, containing a couple of script -kiddies who now have 1 layer of security less should they want to get at your private data?
Another thing...what will be the impact on YOUR speeds should someone connect via your hub and start downloading the Net?
No...bad idea IMPO at least until FTTH gets rolled out...BT just can't cram enough capacity down your home copper phone line to service this 'bright idea' adequately.
 
It will only us up to 500k of the bandwidth and it uses a seperate channel to your broadband so BT say it's perfectly safe. But I wouldn't trust it 100%, I would need more assurances from BT before opening up my home hub to the public.
 
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Id be more worried about people downloading dodgy content, like kiddy porn or sharing loads of music etc. You might end up being responsible for that.
 
I read that BT claim to be able to check who downloaded what - it does seem plausible if the 3rd party traffic is dealt with entirely separately from the home users.

I wopuldn't do this, but then I'm greedy. My 24mb connection is mine and mine alone!! :)

Andy
 
I've said this elsewhere, but this 'scheme' is nothing more than WI-FI on the cheap in BT's favour...Instead of going to the expense of rolling out their own wi-fi network nodes on street corners they use customers' connections instead...connections that are woefully inadequate already for many and will remain so until the fibre infrastructure is rolled out.
The security issue is questionable at best...at least with a dedicated node there would be less chance of abuse than there would be on the top flight bit of kit that is the BT Home Hub- vulnerabilities and all!
 
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