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"find the closest fiber plant Comcast has for the HFC node that services the general area and make them give me a L3 drop to this bridge" You are massively und
by willidiots 12y ago
"find the closest fiber plant Comcast has for the HFC node that services the general area and make them give me a L3 drop to this bridge"
You are massively underestimating the work involved here. Aside from the physical constraints of needing a POP installed for handoff to your random wireless bridge, what makes you think the author can "make them" do anything? And what makes you think that Comcast could effectively engineer a solution to support this one-off installation, when they can't even schedule a normal OSP drop?
Edit: rhetorical questions aside, I actually investigated this option for my parents' old home in the boonies. Comcast actively prohibits you from doing this, per their AUP (http://www.comcast.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/HighSpeedInternetAUP.html http://www.comcast.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/HighSpee...): "Network and usage restrictions: ... sell the Service or otherwise make available to anyone outside the Premises the ability to use
the Service (for example, through WiFi or other methods of networking), in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, with the sole exception of your use of Comcast-provided WiFi service"
- hueving 12y ago>Comcast actively prohibits you from doing this I wouldn't call that 'actively'. They don't have any mechanism to detect this that they use. Source: shared network with neighbor for a long time.
- willidiots 12y agoI'll concede that's not the best choice of words. My point was that they probably aren't going to willingly install a drop to your random UBNT radio on a pole. You need that friendly neighbor.
- bradleyland 12y agoA generous reading of your original post would take "actively" to be interpreted as "explicitly". Unfortunately, generous readership is in short supply :)