[172134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CMTS/Public Wifi provisioning question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clements, Frank)
Thu May 29 12:10:19 2014
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From: "Clements, Frank" <fclements@corp.ptd.net>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:10:20 +0000
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On list would be awesome, I'm also interested in this!
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Frank Clements
> On May 28, 2014, at 10:02 AM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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> I expect Frank Bulk to have an opinion on this, all others welcome.
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> 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).
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> This has led me to a point of curiosity:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> But the question is: is that public wifi service *also* on a separate
> bandwidth-limited channel out of the cablemodem?
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> Offline replies fine, unless you think it's of sufficiently general=20
> interest; I expect it's implementation dependent.
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> Cheers,
> -- jra
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