Comcast is turning your home router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot - Jun. 16, 2014
I saw this story a couple days ago but just kind of thought of it as another way for Comcast to just continue being douche bags and not much further then that. Then I saw
this video which made a very good point.
A little background. For those that missed it, Comcast has been claiming that they
need to eventually enstate soft data caps nationwide to manage network congestion, even though its
since been proven that its complete BS. Of course this is a "deal" for customers since
now they won't hit you with a year long banhammer for going over their cap.
Of course now they're having peoples with newer models of their home routers, that they require customers to lease even if they have their own, to serve as public Wi-Fi hotspots for other Comcast customers. The feature is enabled by default so its up to the customer to call Comcast to find out how to disable it.
Also Comcast claims that the Public Wi-Fi is on a separate network and won't affect the speeds of their customers.
So let me F*****G get this straight. You guys already overcharge me for internet access and provide me speeds much slower then the rest of the developed world in spite of me being in a major market (ie I'm most definitely not rural). Then you have me pay extra for going over 300GB and a fee to lease your router even though I have my own. Not to mention that somehow since you enacted the data caps my internet has been more prone to disconnecting and buffering then the year and a half you completely did away with caps to "collect data."
Then on top of that you need Netflix to pay you because they're clogging up your network, cost which they pass on to me, but you have more then enough bandwidth to set up a couple million public hot spots and it will be provided by the same device that I send my personal information like Credit Cards, SS numbers, etc?
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