Re: Solved - Re: F21 Xfce on Asus ee900 not seeing wireless adapter

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/27/2014 12:17 PM, Greg Woods wrote:

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Interesting that xfinity is running open APs.

Yeah, seems that they have started running open AP's on their
subscribers routers a while back...

They are open in terms of WPA/WEP, but you have to have a Comcast login and password to actually connect to the Internet through xfinity. They claim that their router boxes are configured so that the xfinity network will only use your bandwidth when you are not already using it, and that this network will not have access to anything on  your home network. Do you trust them? I don't, so I have a Linux firewall between the xfinity router and the rest of my house. And I think it sucks that someone else can use the connection from my house. Unfortunately I live in the backwater of the Internet here, Comcast is really the only alternative in this neighborhood.

"We're the cable company. We don't care. We don't have to."

Look into Passpoint 2.0.  That is what they are planning on deploying, and they may already have.  Supposedly if a non-comcast user with a valid Passpoint 2.0 account uses your connection, then you get a micropayment in all the cross billing.

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