Thank you all for your replies to the topic I have started. UVM does not purchase Xfinity on Campus for our students to have TV via their computers or device. However Xfinity usually has a both setup on move-in day for students to individually purchase accounts to watch stuff online. UVM provides its own wireless to all the Residential halls/dorm in 2.4/5Ghz spectrum. Comcast/Xfinity has 2 Nodes on campus that have nothing connected to them, just collecting dust and burning power. We see the addition of the Comcast/Xfinity AP's on the poles to either generate confusion and or interface to the already dirty wireless spectrum. Recently we are running into issue with DFS being 3 miles away from an airport and the TDWR. Thanks again folks and see you in Montreal! -Mike Michael Voity University of Vermont On 9/10/2015 8:53 AM, Livingood, Jason wrote:
You can learn more at http://wifi.xfinity.com/. There are more than 8M hotspots around the country today and we’re doing more and more outdoor / public area WiFi hotspots. In my area (Philadelphia) I hit them all along the route that my commuter train takes, so it’s convenient.
The XFINITY SSID is new and uses WPA2 IIRC.
The guys copied (Ken and Corey) are good contacts for any direct questions about Comcast’s WiFi network.
As an aside, it does not look like UVM is covered yet but we expanded our free college streaming service this Fall and on campuses that have Xfinity WiFi, it would presumably help students stream from more places (see http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/xfinity-on-campus-expands-comcas...).
- Jason Comcast
On 9/9/15, 9:52 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Michael T. Voity" <nanog-bounces@nanog.org <mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of mvoity@uvm.edu <mailto:mvoity@uvm.edu>> wrote:
Sorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link -
https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG <https://www.uvm.edu/%7Emvoity/pole.JPG>
-Mike
Michael Voity University of Vermont
On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote:
Hello,
Today another colleague and I discovered the famous 'xfinitywifi' ,'CableWIFi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY' on our University campus. After doing some poking around on campus we found these gems (attached picture) on 2 utility poles that pass by our east campus. Standing underneath it I got a -46 RSSI in both 5 and 2.4Ghz, maybe 75-100 yards away inside our hockey fieldhouse, through lots of brick, cinder blocks and metal, I was still picking the 2.4Ghz at -64.
Looks like the unit is getting power from the coax.
My question is, I've done a little poking around and have not found anything substantial to learn more information about this Comcast program.
Any insight would be nice!
Michael Voity University of Vermont