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Originally Posted by Kushan

It's both street cabs and superhubs.

Ah

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Originally Posted by Chris

Given that you have clearly only read half the OP, I think you're somewhat wide of the mark.

Ah



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Originally Posted by Kushan

Oh my god, does this mean that qas was......wrong...about something?

Is this a thing now? Am I not allowed to be wrong? Or am I just so good at covering up when I'm wrong that you actually think it's a rare occurrence?

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Originally Posted by nomadking

Several neighbours could have a mobile broadband dongle for just £5.12/month and use my WiFi and Broadband connection that I pay a lot more for. Passers by and short term light use is one thing but the potential for longer term heavy usage is another.

They use your router's WiFi, yes, but they do not use your broadband connection.

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Originally Posted by JPAC

I foresee gangs of teenagers hanging around wi-fi enabled cabinets, could be a new social phenomenon?

No. You don't see gangs of teenagers hanging around WiFi-enabled park benches, phone booths, or bus stops do you?4

If anything, teenagers tend to hang around areas with USB ports. I regularly see lines of teenagers sitting against the wall in a bus station with their phone chargers plugged in. There are even pubs equipping USB sockets on their tables now to entice teenagers in.

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Originally Posted by nomadking

Half a dozen people each with 5Mb, is going to add up. In peak times what will that do to a 30Mb or less capacity?

There is nowhere on VM's network that only has "30Mb or less capacity"

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Absolutely. That's unavoidable.

Actually it's avoidable, though not with current hardware. This would be a perfect use case for those "AC3200" routers (dual-band tri/quad-radio)

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Originally Posted by thenry

If The Telegraph meant stressing the SH and/or overall network capacity then fine but then they should better word what is actually going on and even then be specific so nobody gets to thinking the SH will start falling over again!

What everyone seems to be missing (or making up the opposite) is that there isn't going to be any real change in overall network utilisation hence no real impact on overall network capacity.

All you are doing is, if anything, relocating the same load. Nationwide internet usage isn't magically going to go up the instant some free WiFi hotspots are available. Most heavy users already have their own connections, not to mention this service is only free to people who already have their own VM connections. Any traffic they send over a guest WiFi hotspot is traffic not being sent over their own home connection.

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Originally Posted by Gavin78

So will we have access to the router side of this wifi hotspot once it's enabled so we can see what is happening and how will they be able to split the bandwidth from the same cable coming into the house?

The same way they split the same cable coming into the cabinet into dozens of houses.