[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

[Pete Hardie]

+1

 I hope that they have not undone this on mine - I requested bridge mode to
keep from having to redo all my home networking, and to let me run my own
DHCP server with specific configuration


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:57 PM, dev null zero two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com>wrote:

> or just call Comcast and tell them to disable wireless on your modem. my
> modem got put into bridge mode (wireless disabled) at my request a long
> time ago and it's not broadcasting a guest network.
>
> Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.
> On Apr 24, 2014 2:55 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> That the comcast wireless anywhere thing. It supposedly (and most likely)
>> does NOT use or count against your paid for bandwidth. It's "open access"
>> but actually requires an active comcast account and a login then their
>> network with use all the available devices as a mesh-wifi network.
>>
>> The only way to turn it off is to not use their provided, rental, IAD or
>> cover the antenna with grounded metal foil.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> 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.
>>>
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