<div dir="ltr"><div>So I can get additional bandwidth for my video streaming or this shares mine ...<br><br></div>I have to call them ... Who pays electricity bill :)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Michael H. Warfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com" target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 14:40 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:<br>
> Yesterday I've noticed Comcast silently enabled additional wireless<br>
> network on my cable router named "xfinitywifi". I didn't get the<br>
> reason behind the idea but is open with web based login. Someone else<br>
> with same issue.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Congratulations. You just became the newest member of the Comcast<br>
wireless internet cafe provider club. Someone with a Comcast login can<br>
now log in through the Comcast app gateway and take advantage of their<br>
expanded WiFi footprint through your free bandwidth that they're<br>
offering up!<br>
<br>
This has been mentioned in a number of forums over the last several<br>
months. I don't recall if you can or how you opt-out of them offering<br>
your bandwidth to all comers. Since I don't have Comcast, I can not<br>
test and say for sure from first hand experience.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Mike<br>
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