Wireless networks

[FarmerPug]

Does anyone have this bt openzone thing, my iphone keeps trying to use this inside my house and its starting to irritate my, but in a lot of place i see this and bt fon as wireless networks.

[sirwiggum]

I think its a subscription thing.

My Nokia used to keep connecting to it as we lived beside a funeral parlour that must have had wifi for mourners to update their twitter/bebo/bakebook during a funeral service.

You can buy internets here http://www.btopenzone.com/buy/index.jsp

[highlander]

Apparently BT Broadband (or maybe just BT Vision) customers get access to BT Openzone for free.

[sirwiggum]

Apparently BT Broadband (or maybe just BT Vision) customers get access to BT Openzone for free.

Possibly.

How does it work in the likes of Maccy Ds? It says on the door 'free wifi' but trying to use it just brings up a login screen.

[benczuk]

If you are a BT Broadband user you get free access to BT OpenZone points if you have opted in yourself. When you opt in BT remotely configures your 'home hub' router to split the wifi into two connections, your normal home wifi and a openzone or FON point (same thing, two names) which any one can use. New customers are opted in by default hence the proliferation of these, quite useful to me as a customer. (Though I don't use their home hub so they cant split mine )

As for McD's i suspect if you ask the staff they will provide you with a username and pass for it, it may even say what you need to use on the log in page itself. Same thing happens in Wetherspoons where they have O2 Cloud but you need to log in with the username sponsored password service.

[sirwiggum]

If you are a BT Broadband user you get free access to BT OpenZone points if you have opted in yourself. When you opt in BT remotely configures your 'home hub' router to split the wifi into two connections, your normal home wifi and a openzone or FON point (same thing, two names) which any one can use. New customers are opted in by default hence the proliferation of these, quite useful to me as a customer. (Though I don't use their home hub so they cant split mine )

Quite a good idea actually, get your customers to sponsor your own mesh network and in return they can use it!

I assume QoS policies would apply over the openzone VLAN such that your neighbour couldn't login and use your box for their torrent while they keep their own broadband traffic-free?

As for McD's i suspect if you ask the staff they will provide you with a username and pass for it, it may even say what you need to use on the log in page itself. Same thing happens in Wetherspoons where they have O2 Cloud but you need to log in with the username sponsored password service.

I can imagine blank looks from some of the staff I've been served by in the past if I approached the counter and asked for a Wireless Local Area Network 802.11 a/b/g/n web interface credentials set.

[StevieboyTD]

MaccyD run a "The Cloud" service. If you look around that first page it brings up, one of the options is to set up an account, takes about 2 minutes and is free, then you can use the McD wifi where ever you go

[sirwiggum]

MaccyD run a "The Cloud" service. If you look around that first page it brings up, one of the options is to set up an account, takes about 2 minutes and is free, then you can use the McD wifi where ever you go

There can be only one!

Oh wait, that was *mc*cloud. Which should be the name of the MaccyD TheCloud service....

[FarmerPug]

im a bt customer, so does that mean i can get it for free, seems like a handy system, over in englandshire there was a lot of places with bt openzone.

[benczuk]

If you have BT Total Broadband it should work, just log in with your BT email address and password when you next see one. If it doesn't let you in you probably have to call BT and opt in.