spaceanomaly

I havent experimented with it as of yet, but xfinity did note that those customers that have these routers do not get any additional bandwidth nor "supposedly" it takes any away from them. I am not sure how they manage the connection so it might be something worth exploring. My true consern was that there are many dummy xfinitywifi hotspots out there and you cant tell the real one from fakes apart. Since only xfinity customers are able to use their home logins to use these hotspots a dummy xfinitywifi hotspot could become a very easy collection site for all the xfinity users login information gathering. So potentially you could get hundreds of thousands of logins and be able to login under those credentials to a real xfinitywifi hotspot which are located all over the place. and with this comcast time warner merger 2/3 of the united states will have those hotspots active.. 2/3 of the country! thats like having access to someones cellphone use at any given time...

From what i've heard xfinity is rolling out its hotspots inside every customer's router they install. people were supposedly notified by mail about the hidden running wifi hotspot on their routers but some just dont read the mail. I honestly dont know how much more power the xfinity routers eat up compared to normal routers since basically you are running and feeding electricity to the thing so someone else can login and use it... while you are renting the device you have the option to opt-out of the wifi hotspot feature and are able to turn it off so no one uses it but some have reported that the option does not work as intended. If you want to be a true slave to comcast, get exfinity they now make their customers eat the electricity bill too!

lmao

I'd like to find out if someone has already created a wifi pinapple with a copy of xfinitywifi hotspot rolling out across the united states to steal ALL the user credentials since every hotspot xfinini customers will attempt to login and its not even their device so mac address will change hotspot to hotspot. only thing the user sees is the essid?