[176764] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kain, Rebecca (.))
Thu Dec 11 13:11:42 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Kain, Rebecca (.)" <bkain1@ford.com>
To: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>, Charles Mills
<w3yni1@gmail.com>, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:06:33 +0000
In-Reply-To: <D0AF425E.EDCC4%jason_livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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No one who has Comcast, who I've forward this to, knew about this (all US c=
ustomers). Maybe you can send here the notification Comcast sent out, to y=
our customers. =20
-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Livingood, Jason
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:55 PM
To: Charles Mills; Jeroen van Aart
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
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
