Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

Harald Koch chk at pobox.com
Thu Dec 11 03:19:27 UTC 2014


On 10 December 2014 at 21:50, Mr Bugs <bugs at debmi.com> wrote:

> however they use a separate DOCSIS and 802.11 channel so if would follow
> that it would be a separate IP tied to comcast corporate and not the
> subscriber as well as not taking up your bandwidth.



IIRC there are only three non-overlapping channels on 802.11g and six on
802.11n; I can see more networks than that from my basement.

I haven't been keeping up with the technology, but in the ancient of days
wasn't the uplink side of DOCSIS also a limited-bandwidth, shared resource?

-- 
Harald



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