Author: e-mail phillip.chandler Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] BT Broadband?!
On 14 July 2011 14:35, Ian Grody <lug@???> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 July 2011 12:19:59 Chris Dennis wrote:
> > Hello folks
> >
> > I find myself being tempted away from the reliable plainness of
> > UKFSN/Entanet broadband towards the glossy excitement of BT broadband.
> >
> > For these reasons:
> > * I need a new wifi router anyway, and I'll get a free one with BT.
> > * It will probably be cheaper once the free UK landline calls and other
> > goodies are factored in.
> > * They offer lots of free wifi hotspots via BT Fon and BT Openzone,
> > which will be of interest to me if I get a smartphone or tabletty thing.
> >
> > Has anyone used BT Fon? Is it any good?
> >
> > I have experience of wrestling with BT Broadband customer support on
> > behalf of customers -- it's often not fun. But on the other hand, for a
> > lot of people BT Broadband is very reliable.
> >
> > What does the team think? Would moving to BT be a mistake?
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Chris
>
>
> BT FON/Openzone has by far the greatest coverage for Open hotspots. This is
> unmatched by even any areas with WISPs. I have conducted numerous wifi
> mappings
> of numerous towns and cities and can vouch for this. In Winchester alone,
> BTOpenZone/FON account for over 90% of the Open access points and have
> almost
> wall-to-wall coverage in both City and residential areas. The speeds of
> these
> FONs for you to use when away from home vary greatly. If you use someone
> who
> is in the sticks on a 2M connection, you will get a VERY small share of
> their
> bandwidth. If you hit an area with someone with a 20mbps connection, you
> would
> see fair speeds. I can not comment for their performance or reliability, as
> I
> never use them.
>
> Im a pure hater of BT personally, but being the big guns they are, they
> clearly have more resources. BT have poor customer service and subject
> their
> users to horrid DLM (the case for all 21CN/FTTC users even on other ISPs).
>
> Speaks the man who's probably never had to deal with talktalk
