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Re: WiFI on utility poles
From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood () cable comcast com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:53:22 +0000
You can learn more at http://wifi.xfinity.com/. There are more than 8M hotspots around the country today and we're doing more and more outdoor / public area WiFi hotspots. In my area (Philadelphia) I hit them all along the route that my commuter train takes, so it's convenient. The XFINITY SSID is new and uses WPA2 IIRC. The guys copied (Ken and Corey) are good contacts for any direct questions about Comcast's WiFi network. As an aside, it does not look like UVM is covered yet but we expanded our free college streaming service this Fall and on campuses that have Xfinity WiFi, it would presumably help students stream from more places (see http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/xfinity-on-campus-expands-comcast-now-brings-streaming-tv-to-24-colleges-and-universities). - Jason Comcast On 9/9/15, 9:52 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Michael T. Voity" <nanog-bounces () nanog org<mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org> on behalf of mvoity () uvm edu<mailto:mvoity () uvm edu>> wrote: Sorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link - https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG -Mike Michael Voity University of Vermont On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote: Hello, Today another colleague and I discovered the famous 'xfinitywifi' ,'CableWIFi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY' on our University campus. After doing some poking around on campus we found these gems (attached picture) on 2 utility poles that pass by our east campus. Standing underneath it I got a -46 RSSI in both 5 and 2.4Ghz, maybe 75-100 yards away inside our hockey fieldhouse, through lots of brick, cinder blocks and metal, I was still picking the 2.4Ghz at -64. Looks like the unit is getting power from the coax. My question is, I've done a little poking around and have not found anything substantial to learn more information about this Comcast program. Any insight would be nice! Michael Voity University of Vermont
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- Re: WiFI on utility poles, (continued)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles mikea (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Mike Lyon (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles John Levine (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Livingood, Jason (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Bryan Fields (Sep 11)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Mike Hammett (Sep 11)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Mike Hammett (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Scott Helms (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Mike Hammett (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Josh Luthman (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Michael T. Voity (Sep 10)