[183679] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WiFI on utility poles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael T. Voity)
Thu Sep 10 14:39:02 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
From: "Michael T. Voity" <mvoity@uvm.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:37:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: <D216F3FB.113C06%jason_livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Cc: "Falkenstein, Kenneth" <Ken_Falkenstein@cable.comcast.com>, "Petrulich,
Corey" <Corey_Petrulich@cable.comcast.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Thank you all for your replies to the topic I have started.
UVM does not purchase Xfinity on Campus for our students to have TV via
their computers or device. However Xfinity usually has a both setup on
move-in day for students to individually purchase accounts to watch
stuff online. UVM provides its own wireless to all the Residential
halls/dorm in 2.4/5Ghz spectrum. Comcast/Xfinity has 2 Nodes on campus
that have nothing connected to them, just collecting dust and burning
power.
We see the addition of the Comcast/Xfinity AP's on the poles to either
generate confusion and or interface to the already dirty wireless
spectrum. Recently we are running into issue with DFS being 3 miles
away from an airport and the TDWR.
Thanks again folks and see you in Montreal!
-Mike
Michael Voity
University of Vermont
On 9/10/2015 8:53 AM, Livingood, Jason wrote:
> You can learn more at http://wifi.xfinity.com/. There are more than 8M
> hotspots around the country today and we’re doing more and more
> outdoor / public area WiFi hotspots. In my area (Philadelphia) I hit
> them all along the route 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 free college streaming service this Fall and on campuses that have
> Xfinity WiFi, 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@nanog.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
> <https://www.uvm.edu/%7Emvoity/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' ,'CableWIFi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY'
> on our University campus. After doing 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 got a -46 RSSI in both 5 and 2.4Ghz, maybe 75-100 yards away
> inside our hockey 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 anything substantial to learn more information about
> this Comcast program.
>
>
> Any insight would be nice!
>
>
> Michael Voity
> University of Vermont
>
>
>
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