BTFon login problems

[stevec]

I've just received some Solwise kit for my MH (Patriot antenna plus wifi repeater). I've set it up as instructed and can get the BT login screen . However I cannot get past the login page. I enter my user name and password (for my BT account) and it keeps telling me to check that I entered my details correctly. I can access my BT account through the login page (through the "trouble logging in") using the same login details and that works ok. It just won't work for logging into Fon. Anyone else had this problem?

Also, do I login to BT Broadband, BT Wifi or BT Fon on the login page? None of them accept my login details.

A bit confused!

Edit: I don't have a btinternet email account ( I haven't been told I have one). I'm registered using my gmail account.

 

[chaser]

Iv been trying to sort fon for four years, no luck yet

 

[Robert Clark]

Have you tried downloading the BT Smart Talk app?
I also have a Gmail account and can log into my BT account without issues.

 

[Lenny HB]

Have you got the Fon part of your router enabled? If you don't have your home fon on you won't be able to log in to any other connection.
You should select BT fon.
I just have a fon router I'm not on BT never have problem getting on to BT fon connections.

 

[DavidG58]

I thought the login needed a BT email address, we had to create one for ours, but ours is a business account if that makes a difference, but I keep forgetting the BT email address as we never use it apart from logging on the FON

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[chaser]

I've just received some Solwise kit for my MH (Patriot antenna plus wifi repeater). I've set it up as instructed and can get the BT login screen . However I cannot get past the login page. I enter my user name and password (for my BT account) and it keeps telling me to check that I entered my details correctly. I can access my BT account through the login page (through the "trouble logging in") using the same login details and that works ok. It just won't work for logging into Fon. Anyone else had this problem?

Also, do I login to BT Broadband, BT Wifi or BT Fon on the login page? None of them accept my login details.

A bit confused!

Edit: I don't have a btinternet email account ( I haven't been told I have one). I'm registered using my gmail account.

Sorry don't follow your edit , if you have a bt account you will also have a btinternet email, and that is what you log in with, I have no problem with bt fon in this country but never got it to work in France , by the way I have found you can't connect to bt fon with your own router at home , only through other people's .

 

[TheBig1]

if using fon via your bt account you will need a bt email and password. from experience the bt tie in seems a bit unreliable. I have joined fon directly and installed the access point on my home broadband. the system checks this access point is live before allowing access away from home

 

[pjay]

If you are a recent BT customer you might need to prefix your BT ID (email address) with BT/

ie BT/joebloggs@hotmail.com

Pete

 

[Lenny HB]

Sorry don't follow your edit , if you have a bt account you will also have a btinternet email, and that is what you log in with, I have no problem with bt fon in this country but never got it to work in France , by the way I have found you can't connect to bt fon with your own router at home , only through other people's .

If you are using a Alfa router from Solwise you probably have an IP conflict as the default LAN IP of the Alfa is in the same range as the WAN IP of French Fon. Just need to change the LAN IP of the router.
We have a high success rate with Fon in France.

 

[chaser]

I've just received some Solwise kit for my MH (Patriot antenna plus wifi repeater). I've set it up as instructed and can get the BT login screen . However I cannot get past the login page. I enter my user name and password (for my BT account) and it keeps telling me to check that I entered my details correctly. I can access my BT account through the login page (through the "trouble logging in") using the same login details and that works ok. It just won't work for logging into Fon. Anyone else had this problem?

Also, do I login to BT Broadband, BT Wifi or BT Fon on the login page? None of them accept my login details.

A bit confused!

Edit: I don't have a btinternet email account ( I haven't been told I have one). I'm registered using my gmail account.

If you have bt broadband at home , you log in to broadband , Bt.wifi doesn't work , and fon if you are away from your own router.

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[chaser]

This maybe way off the mark , but if you are doing this at home, try moving down the road a bit till you get someone else's broadband then try fon.

 

[stevec]

If you are using a Alfa router from Solwise you probably have an IP conflict as the default LAN IP of the Alfa is in the same range as the WAN IP of French Fon. Just need to change the LAN IP of the router.
We have a high success rate with Fon in France.

I can get to the BT login page where I enter my login details. I thought if there was an IP conflict that I would not get this far.

I'll try setting up a BT email. Certainly on my profile page I don't seem to have a Primary BT ID so maybe thats what it is. Seems strange that I can access my account with a non BT email address though.

 

[Bart]

I can get to the BT login page where I enter my login details. I thought if there was an IP conflict that I would not get this far.

I'll try setting up a BT email. Certainly on my profile page I don't seem to have a Primary BT ID so maybe thats what it is. Seems strange that I can access my account with a non BT email address though.

Keep us updated as I am a BT infinity customer and also have problems loggin in to BT hotpots. When out and about.

 

[Don Quixote]

I have never had problems logging into BT with FON logging in whilst in UK and again in France using SFR with FON. I have a FON router at home and use my login details.

 

[DonA4000]

You login with your Mybt account email and password. I have different passwords for checking my bt emails and checking my bill, so it's the one you'd check your bill. If you moved to bt from a different provider when setting up the new account bt will let you use your old email account like Gmail as your bt main account login. You can get the bt wifi app on your phone/tablet and the try logging in on that (as a test) you should be able to login to any of the bt wifi, bt fon and bt hotspot. (I think getting the app will enroll you in on the fon, but not sure on that one its a bit late for me ) I have my own setup for Internet/wifi in the Mh and have had the occasional login problem which can be because of a week signal or just the system playing up, I then turn it off a restart it.

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[Lenny HB]

I can get to the BT login page where I enter my login details. I thought if there was an IP conflict that I would not get this far.

I quoted Chaser & was replying to his post about logging on in France where French Fon IP range is the same as the default IP address of the Alpf router.

 

[stevec]

I was playing around with my phone (BT app removed) logging on to a local Fon. If I used the "BT Broadband" option on the login screen I could log in ok. If I used the "Fon" option I couldn't. Strange. That was just using my phone stand alone.

 

[chaser]

I was playing around with my phone (BT app removed) logging on to a local Fon. If I used the "BT Broadband" option on the login screen I could log in ok. If I used the "Fon" option I couldn't. Strange. That was just using my phone stand alone.

That's what I ment,

 

[stevec]

I'm asuming from what I discovered that it is asking for what kind of customer you are, not what you are connecting to. I have BT Broadband. I was at my daughter's last night and away from my broadband. registering as "BT Broadband" worked, as "Fon" it didn't. However I've not done enough tests to justify that completely. I'll be out and about again today so will try at another site.

 

[stevec]

Lenny, I set a different IP address anyway as we shall be in France next month. I did note the post about that somewhere. Also it was another straw to clutch at!

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[chaser]

It's very complicated and long story, and if you look back into threads history on here , you will find iv been trying to get to the bottom of this for the best part of four years, right , I have had btinternet and bt broadband right from when they first brought it out and had a bt email for as long.
I have jumped through all the hoops to get btfon to work, @Addie on here is an expert on it on here and has helped me quite a lot but I have never had much luck with it, and it's an absolute pain at times , when at home on iPad or phone the wifi indicater on the screen will sometimes show it's connected but it won't do anything, and when going into settings it will be connected to fon, so you have to unconnect it and connect to by bt broadband ,then it's ok again.
Now, if I am out and about and they find someone else's bt , they will come up with the login page that you mention and will connect to either fon or bt automatic , and that is fine in uk.
In France, I can useualy find a fon connection, and sometimes even get to a fon login page that asks for your bt password, but I have put it in till I am blue in the face and never, connected, apart from one time outside a cafe , when it connected for about thirty seconds before coming up with a message that I had too many devices connected and cut me off, and I only had my phone.
I have now compleatly give up on it as there is usually some other free wifi about in cafes and things or use the phone signal.
I have found life is just too short to spend it trying to sort out fon.

 

[stevec]

Typing this in my MH via wifi extender (Solwise) connected to Fon signal. I'm not sure how repeatable it is as this is the second attempt. First login attempt said check user name/password but doing it a second time was successful. However couldn't get any Web pages up. Logged on to another Fon signal and it worked. Thinking it may be something to do with signal strength maybe? I have the Patriot omnidirectional antenna (5dBi) and am a bit disappointed that I'm not seeing higher signal levels seeing as I'm in a built up area. Maybe I should have bought the unidirectional antenna. I'll see how it goes this weekend.

 

[chaser]

Have you looked at the list of signals, is there just a bt broadband one, if there is try that, probably better.

 

[stevec]

All the broadband signals were secure, not open. So not usable.

 

[DBK]

I seem to have finally cracked BT WiFi in the sense I can now log in to the BT WiFi at our local Tesco using the BT app on my smart phone. It has taken a lot of calls to BT to reach this stage!

Their system seems a bit broken. My home hub tells me BT WiFi is not enabled and this should mean I can't access BT WiFi - but I can. A web page which was supposed to allow me to check my WiFi status also gave me an error message.

We are off to France in a few weeks and it will be interesting to see if I can connect to FON. I've just built a wifi booster (same as the Motorhome WiFi one) and will give it a try - after a trial with it at Tesco!

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[chaser]

All the broadband signals were secure, not open. So not usable.[/QUOTE
Ok mate, I'll leave you to it, as I said before, it's done my head in and I'm not going to try with it anymore

 

[chaser]

I seem to have finally cracked BT WiFi in the sense I can now log in to the BT WiFi at our local Tesco using the BT app on my smart phone. It has taken a lot of calls to BT to reach this stage!

Their system seems a bit broken. My home hub tells me BT WiFi is not enabled and this should mean I can't access BT WiFi - but I can. A web page which was supposed to allow me to check my WiFi status also gave me an error message.

We are off to France in a few weeks and it will be interesting to see if I can connect to FON. I've just built a wifi booster (same as the Motorhome WiFi one) and will give it a try - after a trial with it at Tesco!

Yeah the bt app on a phone does work quite well, but does not connect to fon

 

[Bart]

I seem to have finally cracked BT WiFi in the sense I can now log in to the BT WiFi at our local Tesco using the BT app on my smart phone. It has taken a lot of calls to BT to reach this stage!

Their system seems a bit broken. My home hub tells me BT WiFi is not enabled and this should mean I can't access BT WiFi - but I can. A web page which was supposed to allow me to check my WiFi status also gave me an error message.

We are off to France in a few weeks and it will be interesting to see if I can connect to FON. I've just built a wifi booster (same as the Motorhome WiFi one) and will give it a try - after a trial with it at Tesco!

Good luck in France with the WiFi , let us know how you get on

 

[dabhand]

Sorry if this has already been mentioned but you have to "opt in" to fon via your BT webpage, this is because you are agreeing to share part of your home bandwidth with other fon users, you can subscribe to fon without being a BT customer if all you want is wifi abroad, you do not have to use your BT email address, I use my hotmail address without problem.

 

[stevec]

Sorry if this has already been mentioned but you have to "opt in" to fon via your BT webpage

I thought you were opted in by default and that you had to opt out if you didn't want it.

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