I expect Frank Bulk to have an opinion on this, all others welcome. Hat tip to Bright House -- I've noticed lately that I don't have to go through their captive portal when using their public wifi hotspots (they participate in the CableWifi consortium, using WAPs built into their 6580 and other cablemodems, and offer a carrier-specific connection SSID as well). This has led me to a point of curiosity: If I'm the subscriber, and I've paid for 15 mb/s down, then my wired connection and my private wireless (if provisioned, and they charge $10/mo, so I'll do that myself, thanks) are using one ... DOCSIS path? back to the CMTS. I assume that cableco provided voice is on a separate path, and I'm sure the TV service is -- if it's even IP at all. But the question is: is that public wifi service *also* on a separate bandwidth-limited channel out of the cablemodem? Offline replies fine, unless you think it's of sufficiently general interest; I expect it's implementation dependent. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274