[176816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Mezei)
Thu Dec 11 17:56:57 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:54:11 -0500
From: Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAL3k+XDtfgG3BJ9vUH1xYfCsL-_arFjUiTefWC9__Oe=mkqC0Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 14-12-11 16:37, Tim Upthegrove wrote:
> At the
> time, I kept wondering what the real incentive was for Comcast to send me
> anything for free.
It pays to move customer with old DOCSIS-2 modems to DOCSIS 3 ones as
they will even out usage on multiple channels instead of congesting the
one channel used by DOCSIS-2 modems.
Similarly, **if** a cableco has moved to 8 channel DOCSIS on the coax,
it may cost less to send new 8 channel capable modems to customers
compared to all the node splits they would need due to congestion on the
4 channels.
OR
It may have just been marketing to deploy that Xfinity wi-fi thing,
thinking it would be seen as a marketing advantage for Comcast instead
of the marketing liability it has become.
