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Also it allows any Comcast customer to leech off your bandwidth. That's what those Xfinity wifi hotspots are, you sign in with your Xfinity user/pass.
by stephengillie 8y ago
Also it allows any Comcast customer to leech off your bandwidth. That's what those Xfinity wifi hotspots are, you sign in with your Xfinity user/pass.
- gergles 8y agoThere's a separate DOCSIS QoS stream allocated for it, it isn't using "your" bandwidth. (Of course, there's only so much uplink at the CMTS, but...)
- jerf 8y agoAs someone who occasionally uses the xfinity login while out and about, you can tell it is absolutely on a separate stream because it definitely gets reduced service. I haven't run a speed test on it formally, but it definitely gets less bandwidth than the customer wifi signal, and I'd swear it has some latency added to it just to ensure that it's a nicer alternative to cell signals but not something you want to use full time.
- thrownaway954 8y agois there a way to verify this? I have wifi turned on and restrict connections to certain devices so how could I tell?
- stephengillie 8y agoThey won't show up on your local network. They're on a type of guest wifi. If you connect to your local Xfinity wifi connection, you might be able to sniff them out, if the wifi allows "promiscuous" connections. (Promiscuous mode works because LANs are like cell networks - they operate on an "honor system", where all devices on the network receive all IP packets, but ignore those which don't match their address.)