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The BT FON WiFi community was launched on the 4th October, I immediately signed up. The community sharing of a small amount of my internet bandwidth, for a massive increase in locations I can get some sort of internet connection seems like a great deal. My best guess is that it will take 9-12 months for this to reach critical mass, such that a free, legal, wifi connection will be available on almost every corner in every estate.

10 days after agreeing to opt-in to BT FON, the firmware on my BT Homehub was upgraded over the wire and started advertising itself as a BTOpenzone hot spot. An examination of the hub configuration laid my main fear to rest, my original configuration has not been touched, and the hub continues to operate on the 10.x.x.x address I use, instead of the more traditional 192.168.x.x. Unfortunately I am no longer able to configure the advanced IP addresses via the web interface so let’s hope I don’t want to change anything.

My Homehub is now running V6.2.6.B, although I have seen 6.2.6.C mentioned on a few forums, I wonder how different that is……. 

According to the Register

Analysis Newspaper and City knives are being sharpened for the UK’s two biggest internet providers this week. Our major infrastructure owners, BT and Virgin Media, are set to release disappointing results at a watershed moment for broadband

By adding a Linksys spa-3102 to my existing TRIXBOX iPBX which is have running under VMWare server on windows 2003, i am now able to route inbound call based on caller id or lack there of (or the number that was dialed if I add some free SIP trunks from sipgate) to any extention in the house or group, but even better a fully featured IVR, lets see how the marketing tossers like a bit of that

I just found this too Littlewoods bombards man by phone

Why is it Skype is the most well know internet VOIP outfit, when their propriarty protocols and technology mean it will not interwork with the 100’s of SIP complient provider around the world, When SIP, and IAX for that matter, is capable of providing FREE calls between different vendors, technophobe friendly integration with an PSTN device

Some SIP Vendors
SIPGATE
Gossiptel
Free World Dial up
Earthlink
Vonage
VoipTalk
Gradwell