[176810] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Dec 11 17:36:25 2014
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:29:30 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <548A0DEC.4060200@cox.net>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Sheldon" <larrysheldon@cox.net>
> On 12/11/2014 07:10, William Herrin wrote:
>
> > What Comcast is stealing is electricity. Pennies per customer times
> > a boatload of customers.
>
> .....and floorspace, physical security, air conditioning, and all
> sorts of labor overheads.
Nope; at that stage, Larry, you're makin it up.
In the particular case we're talking about here, Comcast -- who are not my
favorite people by any means -- have *enabled a feature built into the
terminal device they're provisioning*. It *might* increase the overall
power consumption of that device by as much as 5-10 Wh/*month*. The
increase in A/C won't register on the chart. Physical security is no different
than it was otherwise: none. And floorspace and labor? It is, as they say,
to laugh.
If we want to diss Comcast, let us not descend to things they *are not* doing;
there are plenty of dissable things they *are* doing.
Cheers,
-- jr 'credibility: it matters' a
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