Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

Thu Dec 11 18:14:28 UTC 2014

Have you ever met an intelligent, informed consumer? 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Rebecca Kain (.)" <bkain1 at ford.com> 
To: "Jason Livingood" <Jason_Livingood at cable.comcast.com>, "Charles Mills" <w3yni1 at gmail.com>, "Jeroen van Aart" <jeroen at mompl.net> 
Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:06:33 PM 
Subject: RE: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house 

No one who has Comcast, who I've forward this to, knew about this (all US customers). Maybe you can send here the notification Comcast sent out, to your customers. 

-----Original Message----- 
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Livingood, Jason 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:55 PM 
To: Charles Mills; Jeroen van Aart 
Cc: NANOG list 
Subject: Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house 

On 12/10/14, 9:41 PM, "Charles Mills" <w3yni1 at gmail.com<mailto:w3yni1 at gmail.com>> wrote: 

In the US at least you have to authenticate with your Comcast credentials and not like a traditional open wifi where you can just make up an email and accept the terms of service. I also understand that it is a different IP than the subscriber. Based on this the subscriber should be protected from anyone doing anything illegal and causing the SWAT team to pay a visit. 

You are absolutely correct. 

Now..they are doing this on your electric bill and taking up space (albeit a small amount of it) in your home. 

The blog cited is at http://speedify.com/%20blog/comcast-public-hotspot-cost/. As you can see it uses two separate devices; it is not similar to our residential service. 

Jason 