Are You Sharing Your Wifi? - Comments Page 2

As a practical matter, our usually reliable electric service has had three accident or animal-related outages recently.

I wonder how a comm company would like to have busted service complaints from users of a wifi spot based on my system.

Every once in a while I have to use WIFI in order to get a spreadsheet off my computer to my Windows phone, so if the Comcast WIFI worked for the homeowner as well as neighbors then it'd beat going to McDonalds.

The trend in this country seems to be to tell consumers they can BUY equipment, but they don't really own it, they're just using it !
All they are really saying is that you can use it, but if we find a better way to make more money, You have nothing to say about it !!!

Thank you, Mr. Rankin!
I actually utilized the information you provided in this topic to school someone that became paranoid about such WiFi hotspots!

Serious technical error:
Cable MODEM does NOT share.
Sharing culprit is Cable GATEWAY.
And it's a HUGE SECURITY AND PRIVACY ISSUE. (To claim otherwise is disingenuous and/or dangerously naive.)
Simple solution is to NEVER ever use a GATEWAY from an Internet Service Provider. Instead, ALWAYS use a pure Cable MODEM (e.g., Motorola SB6141) and your own wireless router!

I'm very concerned about sharing my wi-fi because I'm afraid it will slow my computer. I live out in the sticks and I am almost too far from the telephone server now and sometimes my speed is very erratic.