November 6th, 2007BT Fon, WiFi Community
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…….
