[ale] Fwd: Comcast Converting 50, 000 Houston Home Routers Into Public WiFi Hotspots

[Jim Kinney]

Just make sure your cable line is well grounded. In Atlanta area, many
initial cable installations were poorly done. One decent thunderstorm and
you're buying a new cable box.
On Jun 10, 2014 5:30 PM, "Scott McBrien" <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:

> What adds insult to injury is that customers rent the equipment from
> Comcast, so not only are they paying for the equipment, but then Comcast is
> essentially reusing that without their explicit consent.
>
> Makes me glad I decided to go with my own equipment a while back.  6
> months of no rental fee savings pays for the cable modem purchase.  Setting
> it up with them was as painless as anything you have to work with Comcast
> about.
>
> -Scott
>
> On Jun 10, 2014, at 5:11 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> +1.
> On Jun 10, 2014 5:09 PM, "Jeff Hubbs" <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>
>>  It occurs to me that land used to erect and operate an antenna (to
>> include huge cell phone antennas) is not had for free; the antenna operator
>> either leases or buys that land.  In my view, this should be no different:
>> opt-in in exchange for a discount...and the broadband operator shouldn't
>> have the only say as to how much of a discount; that should perhaps fall
>> into a PSC's wheelhouse.
>>
>> On 6/10/14, 4:02 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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>> http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/FTwWOjMf__8/story01.htm
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>> New submitter green453 writes: 'As a Houston resident with limited home
>> broadband options, I found the following interesting: Dwight Silverman of
>> the Houston Chronicle reports (warning: paywalled) that Comcast plans to
>> turn 50,000 home routers into public Wi-Fi hotspots without their users
>> providing consent. Comcast plans to eventually convert 150,000 home routers
>> into a city-wide WiFi network. A similar post (with no paywall) by the same
>> author on the SeattlePI Tech Blog explains the change. From the post on
>> SeattlePI: "What's interesting about this move is that, by default, the
>> feature is being turned on without its subscribers' prior consent. It's an
>> opt-out system – you have to take action to not participate. Comcast
>> spokesman Michael Bybee said on Monday that notices about the hotspot
>> feature were mailed to customers a few weeks ago, and email notifications
>> will go out after it's turned on. But it's a good bet that this will take
>> many Comcast customers by surprise."' This follows similar efforts in
>> Chicago and the Twin Cities.
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>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
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>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
>> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
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