[176757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Shultz)
Thu Dec 11 11:31:44 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:30:32 -0800
From: Jeff Shultz <jeffshultz@sctcweb.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <3677.1418313912@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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Or you can just call Comcast and ask them to turn it off. Or you could
in the past.
My in-laws did that when they got their new equipment. I don't know
exactly how they found out it was going to be done - possibly inside
info due to a relative working for Comcast.
On 12/11/2014 8:05 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:30:00 -0800, "Bob Evans" said:
>
>> However, I have not studied these new Docsis modems. So how do I shut the
>> xfinitywifi SSID?
>
> Motorola Surfboard, Netgear WNDR3800, reflash the 3800 with cerowrt. Done.
>
> And you get less bufferbloat in the bargain.
>
> (Though the 3800 runs into CPU limits around 60mbits/sec - doesn't bother
> me, as my 20/5 plan is plenty for me except when my cats decide to start
> binging on funny people videos. But if you've got leads on gear that will
> still have CPU headroom in the 100-200mbit range, contact Dave Taht. :)
>
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Jeff Shultz
