Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

On 14-12-11 16:37, Tim Upthegrove wrote:

At the time, I kept wondering what the real incentive was for Comcast to send me anything for free.

It pays to move customer with old DOCSIS-2 modems to DOCSIS 3 ones as they will even out usage on multiple channels instead of congesting the one channel used by DOCSIS-2 modems. Similarly, **if** a cableco has moved to 8 channel DOCSIS on the coax, it may cost less to send new 8 channel capable modems to customers compared to all the node splits they would need due to congestion on the 4 channels. OR It may have just been marketing to deploy that Xfinity wi-fi thing, thinking it would be seen as a marketing advantage for Comcast instead of the marketing liability it has become.