[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

[Jim Kinney]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com>wrote:

>  <trimmed a small novel>
>

How 'bout some effort to trim things on this thread which as grown so OT as
to be laughable.

my $0.02:

There's a thing called "demarcation line" in telecommunication services. In
cable modem land, that line is between the the network sockets you plug
into and the rest of the hardware. The wireless interface provided for your
use is on your side of the line. They own all the rest and can do pretty
well what they want to with it within the confines of the FCC rules. If a
customer doesn't want that wireless service that is available for all other
Comcast customers running and using their power (all few cents per year -
wow a bank breaker), they can pull power when they don't use the internet.

Anyone who is a Comcast Xfinity subscriber gets to use "free" wifi anywhere
these modems are and in theory, once you connect to one, you can basically
use the entire US network as giant hotspot given the coverage of Comcast. I
suspect it's this aspect of their business that is driving the merger with
Timer-Warner. They likely have a plan to monetize that wifi.

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