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Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Thu Dec 11 13:26:07 2014
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:14:28 -0600 (CST)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
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Have you ever met an intelligent, informed consumer?
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Kain (.)" <bkain1@ford.com>
To: "Jason Livingood" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>, "Charles Mills" <w3yni1@gmail.com>, "Jeroen van Aart" <jeroen@mompl.net>
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Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:06:33 PM
Subject: RE: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
No one who has Comcast, who I've forward this to, knew about this (all US customers). Maybe you can send here the notification Comcast sent out, to your customers.
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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
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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 and 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-cost/. As you can see it uses two separate devices; it is not similar to our residential service.
Jason
