[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

[Boris Borisov]

So I can get additional bandwidth for my video streaming or this shares
mine ...

I have to call them ... Who pays electricity bill :)


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 14:40 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > Yesterday I've noticed Comcast silently enabled additional wireless
> > network on my cable router named "xfinitywifi". I didn't get the
> > reason behind the idea but is open with web based login. Someone else
> > with same issue.
>
> Congratulations.  You just became the newest member of the Comcast
> wireless internet cafe provider club.  Someone with a Comcast login can
> now log in through the Comcast app gateway and take advantage of their
> expanded WiFi footprint through your free bandwidth that they're
> offering up!
>
> This has been mentioned in a number of forums over the last several
> months.  I don't recall if you can or how you opt-out of them offering
> your bandwidth to all comers.  Since I don't have Comcast, I can not
> test and say for sure from first hand experience.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
> --
> Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 978-7061 |  mhw at WittsEnd.com
>    /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/          | (678) 463-0932 |
> http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/
>    NIC whois: MHW9          | An optimist believes we live in the best of
> all
>  PGP Key: 0x674627FF        | possible worlds.  A pessimist is sure of it!
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20140424/399095e7/attachment.html>