[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

[Alex Carver]

It's Comcast's attempt to make a ubiquitous public wifi network.  The
theory is that it's a separate VLANed AP running in parallel to your
connection that will allow a Comcast subscriber from anywhere get a
usable network connection when roaming without needing a cellular data plan.

There hasn't been much information on it like how usage might affect
your data rates on your paid connection, absolution of responsibility of
the end user for any traffic going through the public VLAN of that node,
and whether the two networks are fully isolated (or properly isolated)
such that a public user could not reach your internal network.

On 4/24/2014 11:45, Pete Hardie wrote:
> I saw something on the net recently about this and have been looking for
> more info - I'll post the stuff I found this evening when I get home
> 
> 
> 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.