Solved - Re: F21 Xfce on Asus ee900 not seeing wireless adapter

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/27/2014 12:17 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com 
> <mailto:kevin at scrye.com>> wrote:
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>     > Interesting that xfinity is running open APs.
>
>     Yeah, seems that they have started running open AP's on their
>     subscribers routers a while back...
>
>
> They are open in terms of WPA/WEP, but you have to have a Comcast 
> login and password to actually connect to the Internet through 
> xfinity. They claim that their router boxes are configured so that the 
> xfinity network will only use your bandwidth when you are not already 
> using it, and that this network will not have access to anything on 
>  your home network. Do you trust them? I don't, so I have a Linux 
> firewall between the xfinity router and the rest of my house. And I 
> think it sucks that someone else can use the connection from my house. 
> Unfortunately I live in the backwater of the Internet here, Comcast is 
> really the only alternative in this neighborhood.
>
> "We're the cable company. We don't care. We don't have to."

Look into Passpoint 2.0.  That is what they are planning on deploying, 
and they may already have.  Supposedly if a non-comcast user with a 
valid Passpoint 2.0 account uses your connection, then you get a 
micropayment in all the cross billing.


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