Using iPod Touch With BT Openzone & The Cloud
Hi
Today i was sat in my car outside a pub which has The Cloud wi-fi.I do not have a account with The Cloud but do have several thousand wi-fi minutes from BT through their BT Openzone service, these minutes are free to BT's Option 3 customers.
Searching for my nearest Openzone hot spot had led me to this pub (247 yards from my home), this was listed,as i said, as The Cloud wi-fi service.My Touch detected the hotspot, i got the wi-fi symbol on the Touch, so went to Safari which directed me to The Cloud's log-in page.Not knowing what to do i tried several username and passwords then tried the user and password from BT Openzone a username number and a mixture of letters and numbers for the password.This failed.I looked at The Cloud's partners link and saw BT Openzone-
i clicked this and was taken to the Openzone log-in, i entered the previous username/password and was connected.
I only had very limited access to the sites i was browsing and some displayed the 'couldn't connect to server'.Strangely, this evening i went back and did exactly the same procedure and the internet/Safari worked fine.
This is a direct quote from The Cloud.....
The Cloud provides access to users of other service providers (such as BT Openzone) and these users can use the same login credentials as they do for their own service provider. But the opposite is not the same:
The Cloud user cannot use the other service provider hotspots.
What i was trying to determine is ... do i need to subscribe to The Cloud's unlimited music service or can i just use The Cloud's hotspots via BT Openzone.It looks like I CAN.
Anybody have similar experience or know more on this?
Today i was sat in my car outside a pub which has The Cloud wi-fi.I do not have a account with The Cloud but do have several thousand wi-fi minutes from BT through their BT Openzone service, these minutes are free to BT's Option 3 customers.
Searching for my nearest Openzone hot spot had led me to this pub (247 yards from my home), this was listed,as i said, as The Cloud wi-fi service.My Touch detected the hotspot, i got the wi-fi symbol on the Touch, so went to Safari which directed me to The Cloud's log-in page.Not knowing what to do i tried several username and passwords then tried the user and password from BT Openzone a username number and a mixture of letters and numbers for the password.This failed.I looked at The Cloud's partners link and saw BT Openzone-
i clicked this and was taken to the Openzone log-in, i entered the previous username/password and was connected.
I only had very limited access to the sites i was browsing and some displayed the 'couldn't connect to server'.Strangely, this evening i went back and did exactly the same procedure and the internet/Safari worked fine.
This is a direct quote from The Cloud.....
The Cloud provides access to users of other service providers (such as BT Openzone) and these users can use the same login credentials as they do for their own service provider. But the opposite is not the same:
The Cloud user cannot use the other service provider hotspots.
What i was trying to determine is ... do i need to subscribe to The Cloud's unlimited music service or can i just use The Cloud's hotspots via BT Openzone.It looks like I CAN.
Anybody have similar experience or know more on this?
Lian Li shiney thingy with stuff in it, Windows XP
