[176821] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Thu Dec 11 18:13:12 2014
X-Original-To: Nanog@nanog.org
To: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:04:44 -0500
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D0AF7EE1.EDE23%jason_livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Cc: "Nanog@nanog.org" <Nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:08:51 -0500, Livingood, Jason
<Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
> ... Behavioral economics would suggest that opt-in rates are almost
> always lower than opt-out.
There's two ways to look at it:
a) Everyone knows about it. Few would bother to opt-in, many would bother
to opt-out.
b) Few ("no one") knows about it. Few will (can) opt-in to service they
aren't aware of. Likewise, how does one opt-out if they don't know about
it.
(FTR, the last one is what's going on here. It's relatively unknown, and
many are apparently opting out as soon as they a) hear about it, and b)
learn *how* to opt-out. But, yes, there are those too lazy to bother.)
> This is definitely specialized software logic and on the frontier of
> work called radio resource management.
Not really. It's just a simple scan of the channels looking for any
xfinity wifi *BEFORE* blindly enabling the service. Yes, it's more work
than the built-into-the-chipset automatic channel selection. But if the
service has it's own radio, it's lame not to do this.
