I haven’t seen many posts about the
recent Comcast announcement - http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/11/comcast-is-turning-the-us-into-its-own-private-hotspot/
but wondering if that’s because people don’t understand the ramifications of it
(or don’t care).
Although Time Warner hasn’t announced they are
doing this here in New York ….you can bet it wont be long before they do so.
Basically what this means is that “from the
central office” they can “flip a switch” so that your home cable modem/wifi
access point is now not only serving traffic to you and your family but also
anyone who wants to sit outside your house and log in with their time warner
username/password.
Your choices are basically….accept it – or purchase
your own hardware from Amazon or similar (btw this means you no longer have to
pay the $5 per month cable modem rental fee which saves you money after 1 year),
if you are looking to purchase your own hardware this SB6121 is the type of device
you are looking for - http://bit.ly/twsb6121 as its
wifi free and once you own it cant be controlled by the “central office”
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