Using that sort of approach made me wonder if the OP was looking at the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and worried that people would be able to come and make a cuppa while they're using his connection...

You either use OpenZone or not, if you want to benefit from the service then it's only fair you allow others the same access. If everyone opted out then there would be no Fon access available anywhere, which sort of defeats the object.

My FON was disabled in the Home Hub set-up screen by default too.

Ours was enabled by default last year but I disabled it as I don't use openzone

Following on from the OP and first reply, I'm alright Jack and if you use it, share it. If you dont use there is no personal moral reason to share your connection.

if you have it enabled andpeople connect to it, what happens if they use it for d/ling illeagal content, accessing sites that are against the law etc? are you held accountable as its coming from your ip or do bt have some system that it uses a seperate ip?

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if you have it enabled andpeople connect to it, what happens if they use it for d/ling illeagal content, accessing sites that are against the law etc? are you held accountable as its coming from your ip or do bt have some system that it uses a seperate ip?

BTFon uses a 10.**.**.** ip range and only a very small amount of your bandwidth. If you were to max out your connection , the person connected to Fon would lose their Fon connection anyway.

In reply to a post by fowler002:

if you have it enabled andpeople connect to it, what happens if they use it for d/ling illeagal content, accessing sites that are against the law etc? are you held accountable as its coming from your ip or do bt have some system that it uses a seperate ip?

Also to use FON they have to login with their BT username or create an account which they topup with their bank card

So it's linked to them.

Ontop of this as already stated they're given a different IP

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In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I don't agree with it being switch on as default now.

I don't think it always is - I know what the Fon site says, but I rejoined BT (after many years) just a couple of months ago and my Fon was disabled by default.........

BT Fon was disabled by default when my HH2 arrived and was setup. I enabled it myself as it's a small chance anyone will ever need to use my connection & besides, it only uses a tiny percentage of overall speed.

I won't use the BT homehub because it leaves ports visible, because BT can dial into any time they want and because BT keep rebooting the router which messes up my music streaming...

UNderstand your concern - but depends on your requirements.

If you're after high data usage at a good price you'll struggle to find another option...

Personally I'm ok with leaving fon active & use of fon/openzone when out/about is useful.