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Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Thu Dec 11 13:00:15 2014

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From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: Charles Mills <w3yni1@gmail.com>, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:54:43 +0000
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On 12/10/14, 9:41 PM, "Charles Mills" <w3yni1@gmail.com<mailto:w3yni1@gmail=
.com>> wrote:

In the US at least you have to authenticate with your Comcast credentials a=
nd not like a traditional open wifi where you can just make up an email and=
 accept the terms of service.  I also understand that it is a different IP =
than the subscriber.  Based on this the subscriber should be protected from=
 anyone doing anything illegal and causing the SWAT team to pay a visit.

You are absolutely correct.

Now..they are doing this on your electric bill and taking up space (albeit =
a small amount of it) in your home.

The blog cited is at http://speedify.com/%20blog/comcast-public-hotspot-cos=
t/. As you can see it uses two separate devices; it is not similar to our r=
esidential service.

Jason

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