Comcast raises customers' electric bills by turning router into a public hotspot - Polidicks

Jokes on you Comcast. I turn unplug my router when it is not in use so take that.

[QUOTE=V12US;45261040]Maybe Comcast does it differently, but sounds pretty much the same as Ziggo is doing here. We have a similar system with an internetprovider here (Ziggo), and it's actually a good thing. As a Ziggo user, you pretty much have wireless internet anywhere, as long as there's a Ziggo user in the area. The hotspot doesn't affect your internet speed because it only uses bandwidth that's not being used. When you start using the internet yourself, it limits the bandwidth available for the hotspot. Also, whining about electricity for a device that's pretty much always active anyway sounds pretty dumb.[/QUOTE] Same in France, it's an opt-in opt-out system You can get free wifi from other users of your ISP only if you share your public wifi as well, otherwise they don't give you a login

We just got a new modem from them delivered to us yesterday... Hmmm...

[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;45260894]By some rough calcs, using the numbers in the article this feature uses .23 kWh per day. At 16 cents per KWh this system costs the customer about a dollar per month. That's a small price to pay for (what will eventually be) city wide wi-fi. Seriously your choice comes down to: 1. $50/month 2. $51/month + city wide wi-fi And you can even turn the feature [B]off[/B]. Is this really something we're gonna bitch about? I feel like the only reason this gets so much hate is because Comcast is fronting it. If google pulled this people would be defending them left and right.[/QUOTE] Yes, because it isn't free wifi, it's fucking comcast using your money to make even more money. You spend a dollar extra a month and they get billions from people paying to use your fucking router as a hotspot. If it were OPT IN this wouldn't be an issue, but it isn't, so it's an issue.

[QUOTE=draugur;45264289]Yes, because it isn't free wifi, it's fucking comcast using your money to make even more money. You spend a dollar extra a month and they get billions from people paying to use your fucking router as a hotspot. If it were OPT IN this wouldn't be an issue, but it isn't, so it's an issue.[/QUOTE] Yea well no one would use it if it were opt-in, defeating the point of city wide wifi.

[QUOTE=draugur;45264289]Yes, because it isn't free wifi, it's fucking comcast using your money to make even more money. You spend a dollar extra a month and they get billions from people paying to use your fucking router as a hotspot. If it were OPT IN this wouldn't be an issue, but it isn't, so it's an issue.[/QUOTE] Yes, but then you also get to use other people's routers as hotspots

Isn't there a security problem by sharing as public/private modem router combo This is just kinda stupid,instead of focusing on this a feature maybe like a few people might use, use the money to idk, build out your actual network and improve everything else for us subscribed scrubs that you already gouge for money because of your fucking monopoly

Gonna say something real quick. I actually work as a comcast rep (not through comcast themselves though, working third party). The Hotspot Wifi actually doesn't draw from your internet. it's a second signal through the coax, so if someone connects, and downloads a really huge file, your internet wouldn't slow down at all. At least, that's what I've been told. However, if the Hotspot wifi is on the same channel as your wifi, you may get some really annoying interference.

[QUOTE=Dracon;45265457]Gonna say something real quick. I actually work as a comcast rep (not through comcast themselves though, working third party). The Hotspot Wifi actually doesn't draw from your internet. it's a second signal through the coax, so if someone connects, and downloads a really huge file, your internet wouldn't slow down at all. At least, that's what I've been told. However, if the Hotspot wifi is on the same channel as your wifi, you may get some really annoying interference.[/QUOTE] I mean, I could see where the anger is coming from. If what you said in your post is true, it implies that comcast is capable of providing faster internet, but doesn't.

[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;45265731]I mean, I could see where the anger is coming from. If what you said in your post is true, it implies that comcast is capable of providing faster internet, but doesn't.[/QUOTE] you mean an internet provider would willingly fuck over it's customers for more money???

[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;45265731]I mean, I could see where the anger is coming from. If what you said in your post is true, it implies that comcast is capable of providing faster internet, but doesn't.[/QUOTE] They're capable of providing internet up to 1000Mbs download, but don't. and the new standard they're rolling out supports much higher than that. But of course they won't actually use it.

BT does this in the UK and has done for years, I don't know many people who even know about it, let alone use it

[QUOTE=Dracon;45265860]They're capable of providing internet up to 1000Mbs download, but don't. and the new standard they're rolling out supports much higher than that. But of course they won't actually use it.[/QUOTE] A single coaxial is theoretically limited to 6.5~Gbit/s. And remember that they have about 100-500 customers on a single coaxial (After they convert from Fiber to Coaxial, it splits off to customers). FTTH/P is the future, nobody should be defending Coaxial.

[QUOTE=ultra_bright;45260993]But....but bigger is better :([/QUOTE] If you're planning to SLI in the future, then yeah 1000w is ideal. You can't really have [i]too big[/i] of a PSU, it's just that you probably spent 40 bucks more than you had to. No big deal.

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha Because routers and modems provided by large corporations never have backdoors, which then get discovered and abused. It's going to be even more brilliant when some small company that deals with sensitive information uses one of these instead of a proper SOHO router, and people's personal information gets published online.

[QUOTE=Dracon;45265860]They're capable of providing internet up to 1000Mbs download, but don't. and the new standard they're rolling out supports much higher than that. But of course they won't actually use it.[/QUOTE] ISPs shaft the shit out of me. We have fiber in the city, but they restrict it to only business class internet. So instead I'm paying $80 for 14/5

[QUOTE=glitchvid;45265948]A single coaxial is theoretically limited to 6.5~Gbit/s. And remember that they have about 100-500 customers on a single coaxial (After they convert from Fiber to Coaxial, it splits off to customers). FTTH/P is the future, nobody should be defending Coaxial.[/QUOTE] Docsis 3.1 can go to 10Gb/s. 3 (at least with comcast) can go to 1Gb/s they just don't. Highest Comcast offers is 505Mbps, and it isn't advertised. EDIT: Also, I should note, I'm not defending coax or Comcast.