[Chester LUG] WiFi Terror

[Bryn Salisbury]

I'd been through the logs on the router when I noticed that FON was enabled. They suggested that noone had connected to it.

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On 13 Jul 2011, at 22:12, Sebastian Arcus wrote:

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> On 13/07/11 20:37, Les Pritchard wrote:
>> Oh don't get me wrong, I will always move people (normally willingly
>> once I've explained the dangers!) to WPA2. I had one person tell me
>> someone had complained that their Windows 98 system wouldn't connect.
>> Think we know the answer to that one!
>> 
>> As for BT....yes what can we say! I've not done any testing of a BT
>> connection, would someone using BT Fon take bandwidth from the owner of
>> the connection? Or do they reserve a permanent percentage for them at
>> all times? In that case you're not getting the full potential from your
>> connection.
> 
> Yes - I agree. Either temporarely, or permanently - it is using what should be my bandwidth and my connection. It's not like BT are giving some sort of discount on their connections because they are borrowing said bandwidth/connection share from their customers. Quite the opposite, really, if you are to compare their prices with the competition. And the free wifi comes under BTOpenZone, BTFon and one more branding which is not coming to me right now.
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> I take deep satisfaction in replacing the BT branded routers with off the shelf ones (when they break or there is any other compelling reason) and always imagine there is a little guy deep down in the BT corporate belly jumping up and down furiously and frantically shaking fists in the air because they lost one more of their routers. Well, at least it's the sort of stuff that makes me feel better :D
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> Sebastian
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