My issue with the "free" wifi that comcast is forcing into our homes and businesses is that it's also interfering with our own access points in the same building! - Michael On 9/10/2015 7:56 AM, Livingood, Jason wrote:
If you run across any you think are terribly placed, feel free to email Corey and Ken with the location and your thoughts on better placement.
- Jason
On 9/9/15, 10:31 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Mike Hammett" <nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
Usually terribly placed, like a shotgun blast instead of strategic locations.
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From: "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon@gmail.com> To: "Phil Bedard" <bedard.phil@gmail.com> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 9:23:46 PM Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles
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 it¹s 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 Comcast¹s 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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