Good suggestion, I will check tonight.

Cheers.

If the HH was replaced with another router... Should the public Wi-Fi access (in city centers) work still or is it based on using BT's HH and Having the networks actively broadcasting.

If you use another router but don't opt out then you can still use BT Wifi, just not on your own connection

Thought so.

Thanks

Not quite playing the game though.

If you have a suitable PC etc, try wandering about outside your house, to find the likely maximum range that your WiFi can be accessed from.


Also try switching that FON etc off, to find out if it is making a difference to your speed.

It will not slow your connection down at all.

The capacity available to you will be reduced WHEN someone is logged on to the BT WiFi connection and even that is restricted to a small percentage - the amount is dependent, I believe, on your connection speed.

I have left mine on permanently and very rarely see anyone connected to it and normally those are visitors here. I find it useful when out to be able to "borrow" a connection for emails or quick browsing and at airports when sitting there for an hours or two.





I will run a test and see how fast the BT WiFi connection actually is when taking bandwidth from my 72Mbps connection.

Going on trailing a new home hub last year. You lose 0.5Mb/s from your download speed automatically so far no firmware fix.

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It will not slow your connection down at all.

The capacity available to you will be reduced WHEN someone is logged on to the BT WiFi connection and even that is restricted to a small percentage - the amount is dependent, I believe, on your connection speed.

I have left mine on permanently and very rarely see anyone connected to it and normally those are visitors here. I find it useful when out to be able to "borrow" a connection for emails or quick browsing and at airports when sitting there for an hours or two.





I will run a test and see how fast the BT WiFi connection actually is when taking bandwidth from my 72Mbps connection.

Why would anyone want to use BT wifi on their own connection?

Out of interest.

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