[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

JD jdp at algoloma.com
Mon Jun 2 11:31:40 EDT 2014


Or pay the $65/month for a business connection. No caps there.

If they aren't tracking it today, and it ever becomes an issue, we can be
certain they will track it next year.

OTOH, the current caps are really huge for most streaming wants aren't they.  It
is only the BT-1080p group that has issues.  Or am I wrong?

On 06/02/2014 11:10 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Yeah - I was thinking that if they did not track it at all, my neighbor and I
> could avoid any caps by using each others' xfinitywifi connection...
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com
> <mailto:bugyatl at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Try downloading big ISO throughout xfinity wireless and check your
>     statistics on Comcast customer page to make sure.
> 
>     On Jun 2, 2014 11:02 AM, "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bugyatl at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         As far I did some testing these are separate in separate subnets and
>         etc. Download speeds are independent so I guess xfinity does not count
>         against your traffic.
> 
>         On Jun 2, 2014 10:58 AM, "David Ritchie" <deritchie at gmail.com
>         <mailto:deritchie at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>             So will there be bandwidth caps on the 'shared' connection? What if
>             you connect to the 'xfinititywidi' connection instead of the local
>             SID? Does it count against your 250 GB bandwidth cap?
> 
>             -- David
> 
> 
> 


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