[176804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen Massar)
Thu Dec 11 17:15:33 2014
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:06:36 +0100
From: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@massar.ch>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
"Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
In-Reply-To: <10570.1418321574@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2014-12-11 19:12, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:04:20 +0000, "Livingood, Jason" said:
>
>> Right, so user name & password + MAC address. As more devices support
>> things like Passpoint, this will get more sophisticated.
>
> OK, so it *does* do .1x authentication with the name/password, not just
> mac address. That's a lot less scary.. :)
It is WPA2-Enterprise (AES) even. Which is a reasonably ok
Settings for Windows 8 for Windows are at:
http://www.upc-cablecom.ch/content/dam/www-upc-cablecom-ch/Support/wifi-spots/steps/windows8/Anleitung%20Wi-Free_Windows%208_0714_e.pdf
or platforms can be found at:
http://www.upc-cablecom.ch/en/internet/wi-free/
As it is a thing crossing both Comcast + LibertyGlobal (and one can thus
use Comcast logins on LG Wi-Free and vice versa...), I can only guess it
is the exact same thing.
Still, from a radio perspective and the spectrum being pretty full
already, I don't like it a bit.
Greets,
Jeroen
