[183639] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WiFI on utility poles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Thu Sep 10 08:53:29 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: "Michael T. Voity" <mvoity@uvm.edu>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:53:22 +0000
In-Reply-To: <55F0E263.3060306@uvm.edu>
Cc: "Falkenstein, Kenneth" <Ken_Falkenstein@Cable.Comcast.com>, "Petrulich,
Corey" <Corey_Petrulich@cable.comcast.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
You can learn more at http://wifi.xfinity.com/. There are more than 8M hots=
pots around the country today and we're doing more and more outdoor / publi=
c area WiFi hotspots. In my area (Philadelphia) I hit them all along the ro=
ute that my commuter train takes, so it's convenient.
The XFINITY SSID is new and uses WPA2 IIRC.
The guys copied (Ken and Corey) are good contacts for any direct questions =
about Comcast's WiFi network.
As an aside, it does not look like UVM is covered yet but we expanded our f=
ree college streaming service this Fall and on campuses that have Xfinity W=
iFi, it would presumably help students stream from more places (see http://=
corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/xfinity-on-campus-expands-comcast-now-=
brings-streaming-tv-to-24-colleges-and-universities).
- Jason
Comcast
On 9/9/15, 9:52 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Michael T. Voity" <nanog-bounces@na=
nog.org<mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of mvoity@uvm.edu<mailto:=
mvoity@uvm.edu>> wrote:
Sorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link -
https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG
-Mike
Michael Voity
University of Vermont
On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote:
Hello,
Today another colleague and I discovered the famous 'xfinitywifi' ,'CableWI=
Fi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY' on our University campus. After do=
ing some poking around on campus we found these gems (attached picture) on =
2 utility poles that pass by our east campus. Standing underneath it I g=
ot a -46 RSSI in both 5 and 2.4Ghz, maybe 75-100 yards away inside our hock=
ey fieldhouse, through lots of brick, cinder blocks and metal, I was still=
picking the 2.4Ghz at -64.
Looks like the unit is getting power from the coax.
My question is, I've done a little poking around and have not found anyth=
ing substantial to learn more information about this Comcast program.
Any insight would be nice!
Michael Voity
University of Vermont
