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RE: CMTS/Public Wifi provisioning question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Thu May 29 01:19:26 2014
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From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Jay Ashworth'" <jra@baylink.com>,
"NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 00:19:13 -0500
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It's my understanding that the public Wi-Fi uses the same data flow as =
the subcriber's data flow. I've seen nothing in the release notes for =
ARRIS or Moto that suggest one can tie an SSID to a specific service =
flow.
Frank
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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Jay Ashworth
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 9:01 AM
To: NANOG
Subject: CMTS/Public Wifi provisioning question
I expect Frank Bulk to have an opinion on this, all others welcome.
Hat tip to Bright House -- I've noticed lately that I don't have to go
through their captive portal when using their public wifi hotspots (they
participate in the CableWifi consortium, using WAPs built into their
6580 and other cablemodems, and offer a carrier-specific connection SSID
as well).
This has led me to a point of curiosity:
If I'm the subscriber, and I've paid for 15 mb/s down, then my wired
connection and my private wireless (if provisioned, and they charge
$10/mo, so I'll do that myself, thanks) are using one ... DOCSIS path?=20
back to the CMTS.
I assume that cableco provided voice is on a separate path, and I'm sure
the TV service is -- if it's even IP at all.
But the question is: is that public wifi service *also* on a separate
bandwidth-limited channel out of the cablemodem?
Offline replies fine, unless you think it's of sufficiently general=20
interest; I expect it's implementation dependent.
Cheers,
-- jra
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