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The Hidden Cost of Your New Xfinity Router

Posted by timothy on from the opt-out-options-obviate-opposition dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The battle over Comcast's public WiFi network that is hosted on your cable modem continues. Comcast responded to Speedify's earlier power measurements by rushing them a new Cisco cable modem. The new modem proved to be more power hungry than the last, and also introduced some tricky IPv6 problems that caused major headaches for the team."

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  1. Re:Service in exchange for a free modem? by fhic · · Score: 1, Troll

    Do you know any cops? Any feds? (I'm speaking of USA-ians; other places might be different, but Comcast doesn't live there.) Subtlety is not their strong point. Arrest everybody and let the courts straighten it out is what they do.

    Sure, they're going to get the person who used the credentials to log in. And the address where they logged in from. And then the scenario I just described happens.