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**Chris** · 17-08-2015, 15:14

It would be interesting to see how much it gave you if you had another device using your private wifi at the same time, or if you could discover at what point your use of your private connection becomes heavy enough for the BTWiFi hotspot to kick you off, or refuse to connect you.

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My neighbour's BT WiFi hotspot has been a lifeline this summer. We have had persistent problems with our own phone line that have gone on for months. It has been stable a couple of weeks now, but prior to that we had barely any use out of our Internet for almost a month, and it was very up and down for a couple of months prior to that.

No, on balance I think having access to these sorts of free wifi hotspots is a far greater benefit than any potential cost in terms of lost home bandwidth.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,364	Re: Virgin Media signals major Wi-Fi expansion It would be interesting to see how much it gave you if you had another device using your private wifi at the same time, or if you could discover at what point your use of your private connection becomes heavy enough for the BTWiFi hotspot to kick you off, or refuse to connect you. ---------- Post added at 14:14 ---------- Previous post was at 14:12 ---------- My neighbour's BT WiFi hotspot has been a lifeline this summer. We have had persistent problems with our own phone line that have gone on for months. It has been stable a couple of weeks now, but prior to that we had barely any use out of our Internet for almost a month, and it was very up and down for a couple of months prior to that. No, on balance I think having access to these sorts of free wifi hotspots is a far greater benefit than any potential cost in terms of lost home bandwidth.