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    http://www.peterlewis.com/2014/05/30/comcastic/

    Comcast, a perennial champion in the “Most Hated Companies” surveys, has now figured out a way to have me pay to help construct a nationwide network of public WiFi hotspots, using equipment inside my house. Comcast plans to offer public access to the WiFi network inside my house for rates starting at $2.95 an hour.

    Here’s how it works.

    Like most Comcast customers, I rent my cable modem from Comcast for $7 a month. The cable modem has within it a wireless internet radio transmitter, which allows me to create my home WiFi network.

    When a friend visited last week and wanted to connect his computer to my wireless network, he asked me which network to use: WeaselNet, my private network, which required a password, or XFINITY WIFI, a public network that did not require a password. Both showed four-bar signals, the strongest WiFi signals in the house.

    A bit of poking around revealed that the mysterious new XFINITY WIFI public network signal was so strong inside my house because it was actually inside my house. In fact, it was in the same Comcast router that operates my private home network.

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    Isn't that actually illegal?

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    It's certainly fucked up.


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    The second he started that segment I kept saying "Don't fuck this up John, don't fuck this up...".

    Overall he did pretty decent at the end, plus bringing focus to the comments section at FCC.gov, although at that time checking it was down.

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    I noticed this in my apartment building a couple of months ago, but I didn't know it was an official thing.


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    Quote Originally Posted by 6souls View Post
    I noticed this in my apartment building a couple of months ago, but I didn't know it was an official thing.

    Yeah another reason i'm glad I just bought my own hardware, because fuck them.

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    yeah, i bought mine from my ISP rather than rent. it's already paid for itself in savings. 6 bucks a month, or 60 dollars up front. in 10 months it evened out, now it's just gravy. plus i get to take it with me when i move out.

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    Would I be able to go about purchasing a Modem from Comcast? Doesn't sound like something Comcast would do...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waraji View Post
    Would I be able to go about purchasing a Modem from Comcast? Doesn't sound like something Comcast would do...
    I wouldn't buy it from them, their modems are shit and they charge a lot for them most likely if you can even purchase it. They have a list on their website of supported modems, I just snagged one on sale from Staples for like $60. Since they charge $10/ a month that's less then a year till savings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BaneTheBrawler View Post
    yeah, i bought mine from my ISP rather than rent. it's already paid for itself in savings. 6 bucks a month, or 60 dollars up front. in 10 months it evened out, now it's just gravy. plus i get to take it with me when i move out.
    for at&t you don't have a choice. have to pay monthly unless you use their slowest speed

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moss View Post
    for at&t you don't have a choice. have to pay monthly unless you use their slowest speed
    Which is hilarious considering every isp gives you shit speeds no matter which tiers you're paying for.

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    And FCC website is ded..

    http://bgr.com/2014/06/03/john-olive...mments-appeal/

    And it looks like Oliver’s argument has been more than successful at convincing Internet users to take a stance against the FCC’s Net Neutrality regulations, as the FCC’s website has been swamped by reactions.

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    http://www.ibtimes.com/chicago-mayor...merger-1676264
    Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA) is bragging of widespread support for its proposed $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE:TWC), but the victory chant is drowning out an important detail: Some of that support from public officials has followed big campaign contributions from Comcast executives.

    In a blog post on the company’s corporate website last week, David L. Cohen, Comcast’s executive vice president and chief merger lobbyist, boasted that nearly 70 mayors and more than 60 additional state and local officials have gone on record as proponents of the proposed merger, which would combine the country’s No. 1 and No. 2 cable companies into one massive pay-TV and broadband colossus.

    In expressing his gratitude, Cohen singled out one particularly pro-merger mayor, Rahm Emanuel of Chicago. A former congressman and White House chief of staff, Emanuel wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission on Aug. 22 saying he believes the merger would be good for the Windy City, maintaining and enhancing Comcast’s “generous presence” in the area.

    “We’re proud to have the support of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel,” Cohen wrote.

    Not mentioned in Cohen’s post, however, is the fact that during his political career, Emanuel and political committees he controls has received more than $100,000 from Comcast and its employees.

    For example, during his time running for and serving as mayor of Chicago, Emanuel has received large campaign contributions from Comcast and its employees, including from Cohen himself, who contributed $5,000 to Emanuel’s mayoral campaign in February 2011. Cohen also contributed $10,000 to the Chicago Committee, which the Chicago Tribune has described as Emanuel’s “other political fund (which) he uses for political activities that support his policy initiatives at City Hall.” In all, records from the Illinois State Board of Elections show Emanuel’s mayoral campaign and his other municipal political organizations have received $50,000 from Comcast employees since he began running for mayor in 2010.

    Similarly, Comcast was also one of the top donors to Emanuel’s congressional campaigns, giving $46,000 to Emanuel between 2003 and 2008, according to records from Open Secrets. Additionally, employees of Comcast made more than $25,000 worth of contributions to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee when Emanuel chaired that organization, according to data from PoliticalMoneyLine.com.

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    Porn sites in on it = good lol. Get that shit going.

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  17. #97

    http://consumerist.com/2014/09/09/at...as-your-phone/

    Why do you need more then 15/5 speeds? What the FUCK are you doing on the internet that requires more then that?!

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    640k ought to be enough for anyone.

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    honestly fedex's bandwidth is unbeatable, we should probably convert the internet to that

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    That latency though

    It's also really expensive.

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