[176723] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald Koch)
Wed Dec 10 22:19:36 2014
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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:19:27 -0500
From: Harald Koch <chk@pobox.com>
To: Mr Bugs <bugs@debmi.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10 December 2014 at 21:50, Mr Bugs <bugs@debmi.com> wrote:
> however they use a separate DOCSIS and 802.11 channel so if would follow
> that it would be a separate IP tied to comcast corporate and not the
> subscriber as well as not taking up your bandwidth.
IIRC there are only three non-overlapping channels on 802.11g and six on
802.11n; I can see more networks than that from my basement.
I haven't been keeping up with the technology, but in the ancient of days
wasn't the uplink side of DOCSIS also a limited-bandwidth, shared resource?
--
Harald
