[Scan-DC] xfinity wifi / cable wifi / cox wifi

[George H]

Likewise here.

The COMCAST smart phone app is somewhat useful in that it helps locate
hotspots in an area you are not familiar with.  A downside of the app,
though, is that it likes to remain on in the background, helping to drain
your battery...​

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Same here.
>
> Public hot spots are also built into newer Xfinity cable boxes so you can
> legally pilfer your neighbors' Internet.
>
>
> > On Jul 15, 2015, at 9:35 AM, andrew <amickert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Alan,
> >
> > Once you are connected to the Comcast hot spot you should get a comcast
> > welcome page on a web browser and it should prompt you to enter your user
> > name and password. You would enter your Comcast user name and password.
> >
> > That's all I have done in the past to get connected.
> >
> > Andrew
> >> On Jul 15, 2015 1:21 AM, "Alan Henney" <alan at henney.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I have noticed in many neighborhoods hotspots with these identities, and
> >> they are often deployed together.
> >>
> >> They appear on the cable line, a small plastic enclosure often near the
> >> pole.
> >>
> >> Now that we have Comcast service, I would like to use this.  But after
> two
> >> calls to Comcast tech support, they keep sending me off with useless
> info.
> >>
> >> One tech told me I needed to download the Comcast app.  Another told me
> I
> >> needed to log on using a user name and password and he created me one
> for
> >> e-mail.  They seem clueless what I am talking about.
> >>
> >> I can select the unencrypted xfinity hotspot, but if I start a browser,
> I
> >> am not able to log on or connect to anything.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
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