Charter Joins Comcast with Plans to Launch Wireless
The Really bad part of this all...
Is that it uses the second hidden AP that is enabled by default on all Comcast X1 routers. And if I recall my Ex's setup correctly, cannot be disabled per the terms of the X1 contract.
So anyone within wifi range of Your X1 router will automatically be piggybacking on Your pipe, which Concast being a distributed network, is probably already significantly slower at peak times or if you just have a less than optimal connection to begin with.
And I bet it will also take a significant performance hit if there are multiple users talking over your connection at once.
Typical Concast, but no surprise that all the other Cable-co's will want to play too. They have in effect created a shady spotty cellular network anywhere they have sub's ...
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So anyone within wifi range of Your X1 router will automatically be piggybacking on Your pipe, which Concast being a distributed network, is probably already significantly slower at peak times or if you just have a less than optimal connection to begin with.
And I bet it will also take a significant performance hit if there are multiple users talking over your connection at once.
Typical Concast, but no surprise that all the other Cable-co's will want to play too. They have in effect created a shady spotty cellular network anywhere they have sub's ...
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Comcast is horrible. I was paying frontier $30 per month for 30/5 for two years, and never had a problem. I got a rock steady 30/5 regardless of the time of day, solar flares, high tide, full moon, or whatever other lines of crap Comcast gives its customers.
My wife's cousin went through a bad breakup (the kind where he had to sell his house), and we let him stay with us for a while. He has a 2 year contract with Comcast for internet, so I cancelled frontier. We're now (collectively) paying $65 for 75/15. Sometimes it will burst up to 20 or so, but we're usually in the 7/2 range. He called them, and got three usual bs and sorry, there's nothing they can do because peak times etc...
Can't wait to get rid of them (comcast, not my wife's ...
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My wife's cousin went through a bad breakup (the kind where he had to sell his house), and we let him stay with us for a while. He has a 2 year contract with Comcast for internet, so I cancelled frontier. We're now (collectively) paying $65 for 75/15. Sometimes it will burst up to 20 or so, but we're usually in the 7/2 range. He called them, and got three usual bs and sorry, there's nothing they can do because peak times etc...
Can't wait to get rid of them (comcast, not my wife's ...
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