WiFI on utility poles

Thu Sep 10 12:54:56 UTC 2015

Sabotaging how?

- Jason

On 9/9/15, 10:20 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Hunter Fuller"
<nanog-bounces at nanog.org on behalf of hf0002+nanog at uah.edu> wrote:

>Wow, it is like they are actively sabotaging us. Sigh...
>
>None of that in this area yet - I'm sure it's only a matter of time
>though.
>
>On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Michael T. Voity <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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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