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Per the article: "The FDLE investigator claims he determined through his "investigative resources" that an Internet Protocol, or IP, address associated with Jon
by neil_s 6y ago
Per the article: "The FDLE investigator claims he determined through his "investigative resources" that an Internet Protocol, or IP, address associated with Jones's Comcast account was the source of the ESF-8 text message."
- webmaven 6y ago> Per the article: "The FDLE investigator claims he determined through his "investigative resources" that an Internet Protocol, or IP, address associated with Jones's Comcast account was the source of the ESF-8 text message." Comcast has this weird system that allows users to open their WiFi AP to other Comcast customers, in return for the ability to hop on to any other "open" Comcast AP. AFAIK, Comcast made it opt-out. So, someone could have driven by to use her AP specifically in order to implicate her.
- tedunangst 6y agoDoesn't the open end of the wifi get a separate external IP?
- jms703 6y agoThat is not how Comcast's wifi works. You'll find that when you connect to an Xfinity Wifi network in a subscriber's home, you're on a completely different network from their home network.
- bigiain 6y agoHow much would you bet against that when the cop 'determined through his "investigative resources"' the ip address of the guest Xfinity network still came back as 'associated with Jones's Comcast account' ???
- jhayward 6y agoAre you claiming that the Comcast modem uses a different IP address for Comcast-network side of the NAT? That the modem has two routable addresses, one for the 'house', and one for the 'open' world?
- tjohns 6y agoYes, that is generally/approximately correct. I'm not sure precisely how it's implemented on the public side, but you're placed into a seperate VLAN that enforces the captive portal. Traffic from the public WiFi network is isolated from the subscriber's traffic.
- croon 6y agoThat doesn't at all answer GPs question though. That they're isolated LANs doesn't at all answer what WAN address they use. If no other indication it probably uses the same. I have multiple VLANs at home, and I only have one WAN IP.
- compsciphd 6y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast/comments/67orc4/xfinity_wifi_hotspot_ip_address_question/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast/comments/67orc4/xfinity_wif... for what its worth: claims to have tested and says they are different public IPs
- webmaven 6y agoOkay, so what do you get if you lookup which customer is associated with the public IP?
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoThat does not mean it uses a different public IP address that communicate with the rest of the intermet, I have seen dozens of such public/private wifi systems, abd never seen one with a separate public IP
- jkhdigital 6y agoYes, let’s start a new conspiracy theory with an unfalsifiable conjecture!
- webmaven 6y agoIt's falsifiable.