On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:02:34 -0700 (PDT), "Man at B&Q"
wrote:

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.

MBQ

Actually, if you don't want people using your bandwidth, you may have
to opt out of FON. From BT's website:

"From the middle of March '09 new BT Total Broadband and BT Infinity
customers won't need to do anything as they will be automatically
opted in to the BT FON community."

AFAIK, this means your router is opted in - you still need to sign up
for a pass if you want to use FON hotspots elsewhere.

I'm not sure what this means for pre March '09 customers who, say,
have upgraded their connection or some account option since then.