Comcast uses their routers as public hot spots

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Techmomof2
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Comcast uses their routers as public hot spots

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I wonder if Verizon does this:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3039682/com ... ng-economy

Your home Comcast Wi-Fi router is likely also part of a giant “public” hotspot network. Here’s how to turn that off.

Two San Francisco residents are now suing Comcast for suffering from, among other things, “decreased, inadequate speeds on their home Wi-Fi network.” Though plausible, the suit wasn’t over any of the problems that people tend to bring up around Comcast, but because the cable company has been, with little notice, been using its customers’ home Wi-Fi routers to extend its pay-as-you-go “public” Internet service.
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Meh I have my own TP-Link modem and TP-Link router...no leasing for me. :D
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Techmomof2 wrote:I wonder if Verizon does this:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3039682/com ... ng-economy

Your home Comcast Wi-Fi router is likely also part of a giant “public” hotspot network. Here’s how to turn that off.

Two San Francisco residents are now suing Comcast for suffering from, among other things, “decreased, inadequate speeds on their home Wi-Fi network.” Though plausible, the suit wasn’t over any of the problems that people tend to bring up around Comcast, but because the cable company has been, with little notice, been using its customers’ home Wi-Fi routers to extend its pay-as-you-go “public” Internet service.
Quite possibly. It's known in the art that you can link to other routers to provide a web


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