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    Comcast wants to set you up as their wireless hot spot !

    First piloted in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Northern Virginia, and the Greater Washington, DC metro area regions, the program turns customers' routers into quasi-public Wi-Fi access points.

    While only open to subscribers, and requiring a password-authenticated connection, Comcast subscribers can now access a portion of their neighbor's bandwidth.

    http://www.dailytech.com/Comcast+to+...ticle31726.htm

    Customers can opt out by refusing Comcast's special "Gateway" and buying their own cable modems/routers. Alarmingly, though, Comcast reportedly will not give any special warning (say a mailed noticed) to customers with its Gateways before turning their devices into public access points.
    Oh if a man tried to take his time on Earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world ? - Harry Chapin
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    #2
    Wow, what a pathetic plan. Glad I turned to ATT... lesser of two evils.

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      #3
      Good thing I don't trust the bastards as far as I can throw them with wireless and only have the modem. Alternate firmware running on my own router ftw.
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        #4
        Originally posted by K PhaNTOM View Post
        ATT... lesser of two evils.
        Ugh.
        --Slaughter

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          #5
          I have optimum
          [hlx]

          "Why so serious"

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            #6
            Bought my cable modem rather than lease, so I am good to go. Still, I have always hated Comcast due to these types of plans that they hatch.
            Oh if a man tried to take his time on Earth and prove before he died what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world ? - Harry Chapin

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              #7
              Well, you are already sharing bandwidth if you use Comcast... Plus, who would use the shitty built-in wireless routers that come in the modems?
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                #8
                I don't mind this, as long as I'm not responsible for what goes over said wifi points. Liability goes to Comcast!

                But it won't happen because I have the option to not only use my own modem but it doesn't have wifi capability. Even if it did... Basement. They aren't getting any signal out there unless I want them to. Problem solved.
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