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Originally Posted by v0id
You can opt out as far as I'm aware, although you won't be able to use any of the hot spots via the Virginmedia app if you do.
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Actually opting out your own hotspot doesn't affect your ability to use the rest of the Virgin Media WiFi service.
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Originally Posted by Chris
BT have done this for years. As a BT customer I have often benefited from access to such hotspots wherever I am in the country. At home I have never suffered from having my bandwidth shared because it is quite tightly managed and only releases a small portion of it for the hotspot to use.
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It works differently to BT. A separate service flow is added to the Hub, so it doesn't take anything away from your home connection. Whereas my understand is that for BT it takes some of the overall sync speed for the extra WiFi connection.
So for instance instead of having one 100Mb config, there is for instance 100Mb + 20Mb.
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I'd also point out that this has been running on the Hub 3.0 for ages:
http://www.cableforum.uk/board/showt...php?t=33703961