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Munchie
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12th Oct 11 at 09:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Looking to upgrade my phone next month, the bolt on has a free unlimited wifi log in for bt openzone.

I have checked where I live and they only have BTFon in the area.....

Now, my question is...... can I access the BTFon thing using my log in details?

O2 says "The All-Rounder is a bigger package. You'll get 500MB, unlimited public Wi-Fi (through The Cloud and BT Openzone) and 20 free media messages for £6 a month. We recommend The All Rounder for most Smartphone, iPhone and BlackBerry customers."
Robbo
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12th Oct 11 at 09:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
BTFON (iirc) is like BT OpenZOne but only for BT customers (rather than sold on by others aka openzone). might be wrong though
adiohead
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12th Oct 11 at 10:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
BTfon and Openzone are shit and slow.
Munchie
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12th Oct 11 at 10:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yeh but its free internet in our shop!
Brett
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quote:
Originally posted by adiohead
BTfon are shit and slow.

I'd disagree there, get 500kb/s on the torrents using it.

[Edited on 12-10-2011 by Brett]
Munchie
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12th Oct 11 at 11:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Depends on area and use......the Postcode we are going to use a laptop on will be L204NP
K2 GTi
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12th Oct 11 at 11:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
How do I get this, just ring them and they'll give me a log in?
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IIRC If you've got BTFON activated on your router so it's shared for other BTFON users, then your same username/password will work to log onto other BTFON enabled routers.
Kerry
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12th Oct 11 at 11:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
correct brettles
there is also an app for it
Munchie
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I think if i get that bolt on, i cannot access BTfon, just BT Openzone..........
noshua
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If you get the bolt on - you can only access The Cloud and BT Openzone networks.

BTFon is something separate altogether - as someone already mentioned, it's for BT users who opt to open a % of their bandwidth available to anyone else opted into the service.

I tried to connect to a BTFon network the other day (I have the bolt on) and was prompted for my BT login details.
Munchie
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12th Oct 11 at 12:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ah cool ok! thanks for confirming!
adiohead
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quote:
Originally posted by Brett
quote:
Originally posted by adiohead
BTfon and Openzone are shit and slow.

I'd disagree there, get 500kb/s on the torrents using it.


Probably why it was so slow when I tried it a few times

Dave
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12th Oct 11 at 13:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Do you need to get o2 to give you the log on details then? I've found BT openzone areas a few times but never been able to get on them. I'm on o2 with iPhone and the 1gb bolt on.
Munchie
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12th Oct 11 at 13:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
^^ I presume so yeh! when did you get the bolt on?
Dave
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12th Oct 11 at 13:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I chose the 500mb one when I got the phone but blitzed through that watching sky go on 3G. I got a text saying I was up to my data limit and followed the link to up my allowance.
Dave
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12th Oct 11 at 13:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
http://shop.o2.co.uk/update/wifi.html

Although whenever I've gon on openzone there is never anywhere to put your mobile number, just asks for username and password iirc.
Munchie
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12th Oct 11 at 13:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
chat to them on o2 support mate, im curious to how you log in as well

Dave
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12th Oct 11 at 14:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It seems even though it came up as openzone it was probably a BTFON instead and you need BT broadband to access these.

 
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