nanog mailing list archives

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


From: Harald Koch <chk () pobox com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:19:27 -0500

On 10 December 2014 at 21:50, Mr Bugs <bugs () debmi com> wrote:

however they use a separate DOCSIS and 802.11 channel so if would follow
that it would be a separate IP tied to comcast corporate and not the
subscriber as well as not taking up your bandwidth.



IIRC there are only three non-overlapping channels on 802.11g and six on
802.11n; I can see more networks than that from my basement.

I haven't been keeping up with the technology, but in the ancient of days
wasn't the uplink side of DOCSIS also a limited-bandwidth, shared resource?

-- 
Harald


Current thread: