Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dave Plowman (News)" Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc Subject: Re: Moving ISP Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:43:43 +0100 Organization: None Lines: 36 Message-ID: <52d31d2aeedave@davenoise.co.uk> References: <52c95573badave@davenoise.co.uk> <52d2b4e17ddave@davenoise.co.uk> <52d2ced917spam.pling@btinternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sCzA8qlR6o4NtRsI0DIgCw.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pluto/3.04e (RISC-OS/4.39) NewsHound/v1.50-32 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.acorn.misc:6647 In article <52d2ced917spam.pling@btinternet.com>, spampling wrote: > In article <52d2b4e17ddave@davenoise.co.uk>, > Dave Plowman (News) wrote: > > Strange thing is my laptop worked via the wireless connection straight > > away, without entering any code. > Ah, you now have the ability to use ANY BT hotspot anyware for your > network access. Right. But doesn't a device which can make use of this need some code or whatever entered? I've got at least 6 BT systems showing on the laptop, and it didn't seem to want to connect to any of those before. > Basically your "homehub" has been setup as BT expect > with the free access for other BT customers to use turned ON. Looking at the setup pages, it appears to be turned off. The engineer may have done that after I commented on the laptop working right away. > It's a reduced bandwidth and you don't notice the use. You've saved them > installing a freespot in that area. > Of course should you change the setup of your laptop to connect via YOUR > secure connection, using the details the engineer provided (but didn't > put into your laptop you will find things faster, I did the speed test. 48.7 MB download, 7.5 MB upload. On paper that's a huge improvement on before. But in practice I've not noticed much difference yet. But I don't much download films, etc. -- *Funny, I don't remember being absent minded. Dave Plowman dave@davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.