"Man at B&Q" wrote in message
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On Jun 14, 11:26 am, Andy Burns wrote:
Dave Liquorice wrote:
Being in the middle of nowhere the amount of data Fon users would use
would be minimal.

If you were surrounded by greedy users, you could always put a tinfoil
hat on the router! (ok that would hide all three SSIDs, just wire your
own A/P to the router)

Someone is missing the point somewhere.

You always have WiFi access to your own router.

Fon access is also WiFi. If you don't want other people to use any of
your bandwidth then just don't sign up for Fon. You don't then get
access to other people's Fon either.

The BT equivalent of FON uses a separate ATM channel for the public WiFi
IIRC (or it did when I suggested it a few years ago).
It allows for the logging by BT and for user verification so the access
point need not do.

FON is a bit of a bodge IMO, but it doesn't require any support from your
ISP.