WiFI on utility poles

Thu Sep 10 12:53:22 UTC 2015

You can learn more at http://wifi.xfinity.com/. There are more than 8M hotspots around the country today and we're doing more and more outdoor / public area WiFi hotspots. In my area (Philadelphia) I hit them all along the route that my commuter train takes, so it's convenient.

The XFINITY SSID is new and uses WPA2 IIRC.

The guys copied (Ken and Corey) are good contacts for any direct questions about Comcast's WiFi network.

As an aside, it does not look like UVM is covered yet but we expanded our free college streaming service this Fall and on campuses that have Xfinity WiFi, it would presumably help students stream from more places (see http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/xfinity-on-campus-expands-comcast-now-brings-streaming-tv-to-24-colleges-and-universities).

- Jason
Comcast

On 9/9/15, 9:52 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Michael T. Voity" <nanog-bounces at nanog.org<mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org> on behalf of mvoity at uvm.edu<mailto:mvoity at uvm.edu>> wrote:

Sorry folks,   attachment didn't work.  Here is the link -

https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG

-Mike

Michael  Voity
University of Vermont

On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote:
Hello,

Today another colleague and I discovered the famous 'xfinitywifi' ,'CableWIFi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY' on our University campus.   After doing some poking around on campus we found these gems (attached picture) on 2 utility poles that pass by our east campus.    Standing underneath it I got a -46 RSSI in both 5 and 2.4Ghz, maybe 75-100 yards away inside our hockey fieldhouse, through  lots of brick, cinder blocks and metal, I was still picking the 2.4Ghz at -64.

Looks like the unit is getting power from the coax.

My question is,   I've done a little poking around and have not found anything substantial to learn more information about this Comcast program.

Any insight would be nice!

Michael Voity
University of Vermont