London Banter - View Single Post - Free Tube station WiFi extended until "early 2013"

Roland Perry · October 27th 12, 11:55 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 06:35:20
on Fri, 26 Oct 2012, remarked:

I'm puzzled how Roland ever connects to wifi. Most seems to need a browser.

I go to my phone's Wifi settings ("set up and manage wireless access
points") and select the requisite SSID. If it needs a WEP/WPA etc, then
that's remembered for next time.

Sat here at home I can see on my phone:

Two of my own hotspots
BTOpenzone - remembered[1]
BTHomeHub-blah - secured with WEP x3 at least
Virginmedia-blah - secured with WPA/WPA2 x3 at least
BTHomeHub2-blah - secured with WPA/WPA2
BTHub3-blah - secured with WPA/WPA2
Sky-blah - secured with WPA/WPA2
Netgear-blah - secured with WPA/WPA2
BOH Office - secured with WPA/WPA2
TALKTALK-blah - secured with WPA/WPA2
AutoBTwifi - EAP
BTwifi-with-FON - open
BTOpenzone-H - open
BTWifi - open
BZH - secured with WPA/WPA2
8WFC - secured with WPA/WPA2
Mr.Router! - secured with WPA/WPA2
RS_001 - secured with WEP
EnGenius - secured with WPA/WPA2

It's a bit busy out there!

[1] I don't know they still have one, but last time I used my BTOpenzone
account regularly about three years ago there was a gadget for my
Windows PC which logged you in automatically (and also had a list of
their International roaming hotspots).
--
Roland Perry