[talk] Optimum provided home router madness

[George Rosamond]

Nick Danger:
> One of the WiFi's is layer 2 back to "HQ" so they can let everyone on
> the same company/brand surf the modem at your house without knowing your
> wifi username and password.
> 

(top-posting is bad http://www.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=lists)

Ha.

I was under the impression that Comcast and TWC got rid of residential
users providing free wifi to their customers.  Wasn't that some /. story
a while back?

It's sort of a funny issue.  On the one hand, residential users are
powering the cable company's wifi for their other customers with no
compensation.  On the other hand, a lot of their customers using others
wifi are likely to come under the sights of the RIAA/MPAA and their
racketeering cohorts.  No?

g