And they are as annoying as f*&k! and litter the already noisy 5 Ghz unlicensed band, Hopefully, the sun will fry them dead over time. -Mike On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com> wrote:
There are Comcast people on the list who may have more info, but it’s just expansion of their WiFi hotspot network and part of the CableWifi consortium. http://www.cablewifi.com, or you can go to http://wifi.xfinity.com to see Comcast’s specific deployment.
Cable companies have thousands of strand-mount Wifi APs deployed at this point.
Phil
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG on behalf of "Michael T. Voity" Organization: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 21:52 To: <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles
Sorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link -
https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG
-Mike
Michael Voity University of Vermont
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
On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote: 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
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