Virgin Media will use home routers to provide public Wi-Fi hot spots
UK ISP Virgin Media is expanding its public Wi-Fi network by co-opting customers’ home routers as hot spots. Only the most recent router design (the SuperHub v3) will be recruited at first, and customers can opt-out from the program if they wish. Virgin says the change will have “no impact on customers” because affected homes will be allocated extra bandwidth.
The data available to the public is also kept separate to that running through the home connection, and the company states in an FAQ: “A Virgin Media WiFi user can’t see anything on the home broadband network they’re connected to. Likewise, someone using the home broadband network will not be able to see if anyone is connected to the separate connection in their Hub, or what…
