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Fair. It does not contribute to your data caps or your provisioned speed with comcast. It does still use your router channels and provides the owner with zero b
by the_jeremy 6y ago
Fair. It does not contribute to your data caps or your provisioned speed with comcast. It does still use your router channels and provides the owner with zero benefit, so I don't understand why you'd ever allow it.
- geocrasher 6y agoZero benefit how? As a Comcast customer I can travel all over the place and connect to WiFi at high speed as long as I simply sign in once with my device, which authorizes my MAC address.
- smabie 6y agoYeah but you'll never connect your own xfinity wifi point. Even if you use xfinity wifi there's zero reason to not turn off the feature from your home router. Tragedy of the commons, etc etc
- gizmo686 6y agoBecause you like to use xfinitywifi and would feel bad disabling it while freeloading off of those who left in on.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoIf there was some sort of social pledge to create a system of free public wifi networks for passers-by, I could get behind that. But xfinity-wifi is not for the public, it's only for people who pay Comcast. You're using your own airwaves and electricity—the latter of which costs you money—to provide a paid service, but don't get to share in the profit.
- gizmo686 6y agoI'm an xfinity customer, so I am getting the benifit of their xfinitywifi program. If they modified their program so that accessing xfinitywifi requires using your router to host one (and it was compatable with my hardware, or they offered me theirs at no additional charge), I would sign up. As it turns out, they are offering a more generous program, where people can still get the benefits even if they opt out.
- tssva 6y agoI don't know what "your own airwaves" is suppose to be. The electricity being used was already going to be used for your own use, so there is no additional cost to you.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago> I don't know what "your own airwaves" is suppose to be. Sorry, I meant it's using channels/spectrum and creating interference. Admittedly less of a concern than power IMO, since a stranger could easily broadcast their own network too—they're open airwaves. > The electricity being used was already going to be used for your own use, so there is no additional cost to you. But that's not true, is it? Surely, if there's someone else using my router to download and upload data, I'd expect that router is going to be using more power and increasing my electricity bill by a small amount.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoIt also uses your electricity.