Posted 17th Jan 2018
Just a heads up to any Virgin Media customers, be aware that emails are being sent out by Vermin themselves signing you up to share your Home WiFi with others by default, unless you opt out.
Hey Vermin, you should pay us to share our Wifi, not assume we want to do you a favour.
Cheeky *******...
Hey Vermin, you should pay us to share our Wifi, not assume we want to do you a favour.
Cheeky *******...
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sorted byYou share your WiFi, and in return can use other people's WiFi
You can turn it off if you want, but in turn don't get to share others
Choice is completely yours. They've emailed you, and given you the opportunity to make the choice, defaulting you to what they think would be most useful to you.
They don't benefit from you having your WiFi shared. In fact, it increases their overall traffic. What they can benefit from is a claim of wider WiFi coverage for users. (edited)
Don’t you look daft now, Branson doesn’t have anything to do with Virgin media and hasn’t fir years.
On your your other point, you got a letter ages ago telling it was happening at the time you could opt out but would be unable to use their mobile WiFi but that’s changed now you can simply opt out.
announced back in 2015, link is in the article it says it doesn’t work but it does.
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But I remember the times when we got letters sent to us customers telling us all this years ago... not long after the war
And if my memory serves me well Virgin (oh geez it's been a long time since I've had one of those) stated it didn't affect your broadband speed
Now I may be an old git, a bit of a fuddy-duddy, but with decades of life's learning I am wise enough to know that it's the modem type thingamajig (I think you young'uns call it a router) controls, via the settings sent to it from Virgin, how much speed you get, depending on what you pay. eg you pay for 75mb and you get 75mb or near it but if you up your speed to 100mb they just send info to the router to increase the speed
And with that (and referring back to that historical letter) this process doesn't affect your own bandwidth - this additional bandwidth is set aside for local wifi sharing
OK off now to get my commode emptied - that black pudding I had yesterday hasn't half played up with me bowels - they should have fried it but these young'uns don't know how to cook food properly - I think they just nuked it in that microwave thiingy. (edited)
Thanks for your comment Richard Branson
He makes the best baked beans, though.
He gets cash yes but technically has nothing to do with virgin any more, he has no say it it’s operation, the name is there he gets paid for them using it and will do for 30 years from the sale date. the op response to the first poster sounded like a dig, my reply I was simply pointing out a fact he has nothing to do with Virgin which is true as well as being a sarcastic reply to a poor comment from the op.
In order for other Virgin users to use your hotspot, they will need to sign in with their account details to verify they can use it (ie they have it enabled themselves)
So if the "it wasn't me, must have been someone using my Virgin Wi-Fi" card is played, surely Virgin can go back over their own logs and identify it was indeed a visitor and, presumably, who it was too.
Eat humble pie fool, Branson still gets a cut..... don't u look daft x2
Have a look here separate connection which probably has its own ip. But simple way is just to disable it just log in and click opt out.
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As far as I understand as all traffic via the BT hotspots go through a seperate channel so it's easy to differentiate between home use and that using the hotspot channel. This isnt new technology , so I don't think the police are going to be confused .
So you are saying I could use that excuse in court? Interesting indeed.
just disable it, took 2 seconds to do
In my own brief flirtation with the SH3 it was pushed acting as a modem, I never did get to try the router side of things. In the two weeks I persisted with it, it needed a daily reboot and I eventually got fed up and downgraded back to the older Hub. The SH3 is not fit for purpose in my opinion.
Don't you look stupid, The global Virgin brand is paid for use of its trademark so YES Dickie the billionaire does get paid.
The problem with this option is as far as "the authorities" are concerned, people sitting outside your house using your virgin assigned IP to access dodgy sites.
When these places are raided, or the digital fingerprint checked, the access to potential nonce type servers will log your Virgin IP and your premises will be the focus of the search warrant, not the guy/girl sitting outside your house downloading a ton of illegal images.
I did it mainly for performance reasons, but a nice side effect is no-more wifi sharing/security threats from the general public connecting through my router.
BT/Virgin will try and re-assure you that its totally seperate and doesnt interfere with your home network. I'd rather not leave it to chance and instead just deny public access to my router.
I suspect sticking Hubs into Modem mode and using a separate router would stop this happening should it be forced on you. Must admit I wouldn’t feel comfortable sharing my connection full stop.
I have a lot of home automation devices connected to and operated by wifi. Over the Christmas period I was having a lot of problems with dropouts and devices (laptops and phones) being unable to connect to the network. I googled the problem and read that a potential cause could be channel interference - my main wifi network, my guest network and the 'open' virginmedia network were all sharing Channel 11! So I opted out of sharing the open network and disabled the Guest network. Don't know if this was the cause or not but my actions appear to have solved the problem for now!
Anyway I have decided I'm going to get my own router (Netgear R7800 when next on offer at Amazon) and put the SH3 into modem mode!
Thinking about it I doubt it was channel interference and guess that having three wireless networks (as well as 2.4 and 5GHz dual bands) was just too much work for the limited SH3 to handle(?). (edited)
Aslo the hotspot has nothing to do with your connection it’s a separate internet connection
they changed the policy, you can disable it and still use the wifi service.