<div dir="ltr"><div>That the comcast wireless anywhere thing. It supposedly (and most likely) does NOT use or count against your paid for bandwidth. It's "open access" but actually requires an active comcast account and a login then their network with use all the available devices as a mesh-wifi network.<br>
<br></div>The only way to turn it off is to not use their provided, rental, IAD or cover the antenna with grounded metal foil.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Boris Borisov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com" target="_blank">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Yesterday I've noticed Comcast silently enabled additional wireless network on my cable router named "xfinitywifi". I didn't get the reason behind the idea but is open with web based login. Someone else with same issue. <br>
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