Nun gets more bits per second, ponders tinfoil hat.

[sistawendy]

After over a year of nagging by mail from Comcast, I upgraded my cable modem. Sure enough, I now get 50 Mbps in my apartment, at least at the off-peak hour of 2200. (My son will probably be thrilled, because he & I used to interfere with each other.) But as I recall, Comcast uses these modems, which are also wireless routers, to sell your home WiFi bandwidth to whoever's in range. Not cool, and the subject of a lawsuit or two.

My solution? Part 1, already implemented, is to use my old Apple wireless router; I also get to keep my nifty network name that way. Part 2, to be done, is putting a Faraday cage around the Comcast box. Since I'm not using the WiFi from it, it should be harmless. It should also nicely sabotage Comcast, yes?

Comments

[darkmane.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you have such a slow connection.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

BWA HAHAH! I love the idea of the Faraday cage & screwing over Comcast. They shouldn't be selling what you're already paying for anyway.

Tha

[dagard.livejournal.com]

That's... overly complicated.

You can disable the other-people wifi through your account, or, if you're me, drunkenly calling them up when you realize, shit, you've got the free xfinity wifi turned on.

I won't even get into tempest-shielding. That's just crazytalk.

Full disclosure: I abuse the shit out of the fact I have an Xfinity login. I just don't let other people use my wireless. They're generally not up on their shots, and therefore don't need to be on my home networks.

Re: Tha

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

It may be even simpler than that: I just went to the account site, and as far as they're concerned, I have no WiFi service even though I have their hardware plugged in & turned on. It may just be a matter of plugging another wireless router into an Ethernet port, as I did.