Thread: General VM Hubs as WiFi hot spots
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Old 13-06-2017, 18:11   #161
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Re: VM Hubs as WiFi hot spots

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Originally Posted by Horace View Post
btw Ben, are you subject to the superhub owners settings regarding parental controls or are controls always on? I noticed that reddit among other sites wasn't responding when using a hubspot.
You are always subject to content controls when using Virgin Media WiFi.

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Originally Posted by roughbeast View Post
My street has 5 pink circles along it. A careful search of SIDs within those circles reveals not a single Virgin Media WiFi hotspot.
The pink circles are rough areas as to where the service could be available via Hubs. They're specific to individual Hubs.

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Originally Posted by roughbeast View Post
A close inspection of red markers in every case revealed hotspots, but they were not Virgin. Indeed one I connected to at a red marker was a BTFON hotspot because I have a pure FON router running at home that allows me to connect to all FON spots world-wide.
The Virgin Media WiFi app will not show BTFON hotspots - they are not part of Virgin Media WiFi

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Originally Posted by DJSADERS View Post
If they are anything like mine... i have renamed my one...
You cannot rename the Virgin Media WiFi SSID
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