Thank you all for your replies to the topic I have started.
UVM does not purchase Xfinity on Campus for our students to have TV via
their computers or device. However Xfinity usually has a both setup on
move-in day for students to individually purchase accounts to watch
stuff online. UVM provides its own wireless to all the Residential
halls/dorm in 2.4/5Ghz spectrum. Comcast/Xfinity has 2 Nodes on campus
that have nothing connected to them, just collecting dust and burning
power.
We see the addition of the Comcast/Xfinity AP's on the poles to either
generate confusion and or interface to the already dirty wireless
spectrum. Recently we are running into issue with DFS being 3 miles
away from an airport and the TDWR.
Thanks again folks and see you in Montreal!
-Mike
Michael Voity
University of Vermont
On 9/10/2015 8:53 AM, Livingood, Jason wrote:
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"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Sorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link -
https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG
<https://www.uvm.edu/%7Emvoity/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
