[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

[Jerald Sheets]

I shut down my wifi point the day they plugged it in and haven’t had it on since.  I use my own wifi internally on my Comcast Business.

Wifi light isn’t on either, so I guess I’m still good.  I changed the password on my modem too.  On at least one tech call, they didn’t know it and I didn’t tell them, so they couldn’t get in until I changed it back to the one they were expecting.  As soon as we hung up, I changed it back to my secret password.  There’s no telling, though, if their internal tools can’t just change it at whim, though.

—j


On Apr 25, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse <Jeremy.Bouse at UnderGrid.net> wrote:

> On 24.04.2014 14:40, Boris Borisov wrote:
>> Yesterday Ive noticed Comcast silently enabled additional wireless
>> network on my cable router named "xfinitywifi". I didnt get the reason
>> behind the idea but is open with web based login. Someone else with
>> same issue. 
> 
> I avoid this very type of thing by using my customer-owned device that has no wifi just a straight DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem with a personal wifi/router behind it that Comscat has ZERO access to. That said I also haven't had a month yet this year where my usage was less than 300GB/month.
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