<div dir="ltr">good luck renting a DOCSIS 3.0 modem only from Comcast. afaik they only offer all-in-one router/modem gateway for rental for DOCSIS 3.0. you can almost always have them enable true bridge mode though which disables all router functionality though.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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it to allow others to use the WiFi. With a separate router they’d have to hack through the modem into the WiFi to offer it. I doubt they’re going through that much effort even if they had people smart enough to do so.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 24, 2014 3:26 PM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">So I can get additional bandwidth for my video streaming or this shares mine ...<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Michael H. Warfield <<a href="mailto:mhw@wittsend.com" target="_blank">mhw@wittsend.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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>
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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>
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Mike<br>
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