On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Kevin Fenzi <ke...@scrye.com> wrote:

> > Interesting that xfinity is running open APs.
>
> Yeah, seems that they have started running open AP's on their
> subscribers routers a while back...
>

They are open in terms of WPA/WEP, but you have to have a Comcast login and
password to actually connect to the Internet through xfinity. They claim
that their router boxes are configured so that the xfinity network will
only use your bandwidth when you are not already using it, and that this
network will not have access to anything on  your home network. Do you
trust them? I don't, so I have a Linux firewall between the xfinity router
and the rest of my house. And I think it sucks that someone else can use
the connection from my house. Unfortunately I live in the backwater of the
Internet here, Comcast is really the only alternative in this neighborhood.

"We're the cable company. We don't care. We don't have to."

--Greg
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