I would have to expect they're doing a virtual SSID which means 0 additional wattage. Worst case scenario it adds another radio of less than 5 watts of which is absolutely negligible if you're able to afford cable Internet service. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
While I generally support the lawsuit, I have to question "a vast burden on their electric bill".
Does an 802.11 transmitter that was already being used to support their own WiFi network that they are paying for really consume vastly more electricity to support a second SSID? In my experience, that claim is hard to fathom.
Owen
On Dec 10, 2014, at 18:35 , Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
Why am I not surprised?
Whose fault would it be if your comcast installed public wifi would be abused to download illegal material or launch a botnet, to name some random fun one could have on your behalf. :-/
(apologies if this was posted already, couldn't find an email about it on the list)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/10/disgruntled_customers_lob_sueball_at...
"A mother and daughter are suing Comcast claiming the cable giant's
router in their home was offering public Wi-Fi without their permission.
Comcast-supplied routers broadcast an encrypted, private wireless
network for people at home, plus a non-encrypted network called XfinityWiFi that can be used by nearby subscribers. So if you're passing by a fellow user's home, you can lock onto their public Wi-Fi, log in using your Comcast username and password, and use that home's bandwidth.
However, Toyer Grear, 39, and daughter Joycelyn Harris – who live
together in Alameda County, California – say they never gave Comcast permission to run a public network from their home cable connection.
In a lawsuit [PDF] filed in the northern district of the golden state,
the pair accuse the ISP of breaking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and two other laws.
Grear – a paralegal – and her daughter claim the Xfinity hotspot is an
unauthorized intrusion into their private home, places a "vast" burden on electricity bills, opens them up to attacks by hackers, and "degrades" their bandwidth.
"Comcast does not, however, obtain the customer's authorization prior to
engaging in this use of the customer's equipment and internet service for public, non-household use," the suit claims.
"Indeed, without obtaining its customers' authorization for this
additional use of their equipment and resources, over which the customer has no control, Comcast has externalized the costs of its national Wi-Fi network onto its customers."
The plaintiffs are seeking monetary damages for themselves and on behalf
of all Comcast customers nation-wide in their class-action case – the service was rolled out to 20 million customers this year."
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