[176794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Thu Dec 11 16:41:13 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>, Mike <mack1412@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:41:24 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 12/11/14, 3:50 PM, "Doug Barton" <dougb@dougbarton.us<mailto:dougb@dougb=
arton.us>> wrote:
That's interesting, thanks for that info, Mike. Jason has a good point in t=
hat a lot of the "reporting" on this topic so far has been ill-informed...
What else is new? ;-) It=92s frustrating where I sit but sometimes reporter=
s don=92t like when facts get in the way of a good story. It comes with the=
territory, so I=92m used to it.
I see a lot of strong xfinity signals stomping on an already crowded 2.4 G =
spectrum.
Fair point. But 2.4GHz was a bit of a mess before we came along with this s=
ervice. 5GHz is a lot better and we were one of many companies in favor of =
the recent FCC decision to expand unlicensed 5GHz spectrum. See http://arst=
echnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/more-wi-fi-is-better-fcc-expands=
-use-of-5-ghz-spectrum/
So just to be clear, I'm not being critical at this point, I'm simply inter=
ested in separating the facts from the hype.
No worries! :-)
Jason
