On 11/20/20 15:26, Rod Beck wrote:
Hey Gang,
How do the cable companies generally deliver this service? A friend
insists it piggybacks off the WIFI radios of existing cable company
subscribers. In other words, the cable company WIFI router in a flat is
providing both a private link for the flat's subscriber, but also a
public hotspot service.
That's pretty much it. The cable provider typically provides a
multi-function box that's a cable modem, NAT router, analog telephone
adapter, and wi-fi hotspot. In addition to the SSID for individual
customer use they by default have a generic SSID that is used by any
roaming Comcast customer within range. This has a nasty habit of landing
on the same channel as other devices and causing interference. The user
interface doesn't show this or have any way of disabling it.
They provided one of these for my sister and of course their box wasn't
exactly in the best place in the house for radio. I put in a proper
access point and it took several phone calls to tech support to get them
to turn off the radio in their box completely including the default
roaming SSID. I was this >< close to opening the thing up to figure out
which trace to cut when I finally got someone with enough clue to turn
it off.
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