[ale] OT: Comcast Wi-Fi

[dev null zero two]

or just call Comcast and tell them to disable wireless on your modem. my
modem got put into bridge mode (wireless disabled) at my request a long
time ago and it's not broadcasting a guest network.

Sent from my mobile. Please excuse the brevity, spelling, and punctuation.
On Apr 24, 2014 2:55 PM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> The only way to turn it off is to not use their provided, rental, IAD or
> cover the antenna with grounded metal foil.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
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