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The article is talking about also using the additional WiFi hotspot that every Comcast modem they provide you with has (not leaching from a neighbor). http://ar

by grok2 12y ago

The article is talking about also using the additional WiFi hotspot that every Comcast modem they provide you with has (not leaching from a neighbor). http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/comcast-sued-by-customers-for-turning-routers-into-public-hotspots/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/12/comcast-sued-by-c...

shmerl 12y ago
But that hotspot goes through the same line that neighbors are connected with, no? Or Comcast doesn't count the hotspot traffic towards the plan bandwidth?
- FireBeyond 12y ago
  It counts it towards your data cap (if you are subject to it), but not to the bandwidth available under your plan.
  - moron4hire 12y ago
    That's the worst. I have more than enough bandwidth for Netflix, but I frequently hot my data cap. I don't think there is such a thing as a comcast account without a data cap.
    - FireBeyond 12y ago
      I pay for a business account (but I work from home). No caps, no torrent or other throttling, no port blocking (back in the days when I ran my own mail server), optional static IPs. But you definitely pay for it.
      - moron4hire 12y ago
        I might gave to go that route. Thanks for reminding me.
    - tacon 12y ago
      For well over a year, my Comcast account has had this note: Note: Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended. (427GB so far this month...)
  - shmerl 12y ago
    That's weird. Since it defeats the purpose of expanding their WiFi hotspots coverage. If people have capped plans, they are likely to disable that hotspot altogether and use their own routers to begin with, to avoid anyone switching it back on. If they wanted such thing to work, it had to be excluded from both monthly data caps and active bandwidth limit. That's besides the point that monthly caps is a completely nasty rip off. Luckily I never had one. Are they common in Comcast network?
    - devicenull 12y ago
      > That's weird. Since it defeats the purpose of expanding their WiFi hotspots coverage. If people have capped plans, they are likely to disable that hotspot altogether and use their own routers to begin with, to avoid anyone switching it back on. If they wanted such thing to work, it had to be excluded from both monthly data caps and active bandwidth limit. I think what he's trying to say is that as an individual using the xfinitywifi network the traffic counts towards your data cap. As the person hosting the access point, other people using it does not count towards your cap.
      - shmerl 12y ago
        > As the person hosting the access point, other people using it does not count towards your cap. Ah, that makes more sense.
        ars 12y ago
        It doesn't count toward your bandwidth either. The neighborhood line has much more bandwidth that is allocated to each individual house. So they just allocate double bandwidth to house, and you get 1 of it, and the wifi gets the other.
  - rjaco31 12y ago
    Data cap? For Home Internet? In 2015? =/
    - shmerl 12y ago
      It sounds crazy, but apparently some places have it. In Australia it's even more common.

by grok2 12y ago

shmerl 12y ago

But that hotspot goes through the same line that neighbors are connected with, no? Or Comcast doesn't count the hotspot traffic towards the plan bandwidth?

FireBeyond 12y ago
It counts it towards your data cap (if you are subject to it), but not to the bandwidth available under your plan.
- moron4hire 12y ago
  That's the worst. I have more than enough bandwidth for Netflix, but I frequently hot my data cap. I don't think there is such a thing as a comcast account without a data cap.
  - FireBeyond 12y ago
    I pay for a business account (but I work from home). No caps, no torrent or other throttling, no port blocking (back in the days when I ran my own mail server), optional static IPs. But you definitely pay for it.
    - moron4hire 12y ago
      I might gave to go that route. Thanks for reminding me.
  - tacon 12y ago
    For well over a year, my Comcast account has had this note: Note: Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended. (427GB so far this month...)
- shmerl 12y ago
  That's weird. Since it defeats the purpose of expanding their WiFi hotspots coverage. If people have capped plans, they are likely to disable that hotspot altogether and use their own routers to begin with, to avoid anyone switching it back on. If they wanted such thing to work, it had to be excluded from both monthly data caps and active bandwidth limit. That's besides the point that monthly caps is a completely nasty rip off. Luckily I never had one. Are they common in Comcast network?
  - devicenull 12y ago
    > That's weird. Since it defeats the purpose of expanding their WiFi hotspots coverage. If people have capped plans, they are likely to disable that hotspot altogether and use their own routers to begin with, to avoid anyone switching it back on. If they wanted such thing to work, it had to be excluded from both monthly data caps and active bandwidth limit. I think what he's trying to say is that as an individual using the xfinitywifi network the traffic counts towards your data cap. As the person hosting the access point, other people using it does not count towards your cap.
    - shmerl 12y ago
      > As the person hosting the access point, other people using it does not count towards your cap. Ah, that makes more sense.
      - ars 12y ago
        It doesn't count toward your bandwidth either. The neighborhood line has much more bandwidth that is allocated to each individual house. So they just allocate double bandwidth to house, and you get 1 of it, and the wifi gets the other.
- rjaco31 12y ago
  Data cap? For Home Internet? In 2015? =/
  - shmerl 12y ago
    It sounds crazy, but apparently some places have it. In Australia it's even more common.