[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

[Lightner, Jeff]

You don't have to "rent" at all.  You can buy your own (as I did years ago).

A recent post on this list said that you can still buy your own but they make you bring the receipt to them to prove you "own" it.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of dev null zero two
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:47 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

good luck renting a DOCSIS 3.0 modem only from Comcast. afaik they only offer all-in-one router/modem gateway for rental for DOCSIS 3.0. you can almost always have them enable true bridge mode though which disables all router functionality though.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at dsservices.com<mailto:JLightner at dsservices.com>> wrote:
Or you could have a separate cable modem and router instead of an all in one.  My guess is that in the all in one even if you own it they're able to configure it to allow others to use the WiFi.   With a separate router they'd have to hack through the modem into the WiFi to offer it.   I doubt they're going through that much effort even if they had people smart enough to do so.

From: ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] On Behalf Of Boris Borisov
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:26 PM
To: Michael H. Warfield; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

So I can get additional bandwidth for my video streaming or this shares mine ...
I have to call them ... Who pays electricity bill :)

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com<mailto:mhw at wittsend.com>> wrote:
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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