[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

[Michael H. Warfield]

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
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