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From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:11 PM, George, Wes <wesley.george@twcable.com> wrote:
Their intended use is to give access to visitors in your house and/or yard without you needing to set up a dedicated guest network or giving them your wifi password.
this seems like the key point here... comcast isn't actually benefiting (except perhaps in less calls about: "Someone reconfigured my AP ... now it's all screwy"
folk need to relax just a tad, and consider the technical implications here, outside of the conspiracy theories.
Alas, I cannot accept George's assertion (which is quite a different thing from my thinking it's a conspiracy): In residential areas (non-multi-unit), this is only going to help out *Comcast subscribers*. If you have random visitors over, it won't help them, as they can't get authed to the service. Unless you give them your credentials, at which point they can use it everywhere, not just at your house. And it doesn't let you help your neighbors for the same reason: if they have their own creds for it, then they don't need your AP since they have one. No, I'm having a hard time figuring out what the use case *is* for this service as deployed against *residential* hardware, myself... 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