My Mac has worked in both GF and CCR
I had a slight problem the last time when the Mac connected to the BTOpenZone pay service rather than the free one. I think the pay service as a far stronger signal. The free service did show up after a short while. Did not move the mac around the room (not much room to move around in the cabana anayway

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You can get really great download speeds on file sharing (an episode of Eastenders downloaded in 3/4 minutes) - wonder if that is why others are having a problem