Well, I'm not so certain they're
necessarily going to make it a well known fact that "anyone" can
hop onto your modem now. Yes it will be separate bandwidth, but
I'm not keen that a modem hack wouldn't allow someone to bridge
themselves into my network path too, redirecting, tcpdumping,
etc. At very least doing so with ap firmware bothers me having
"others" connecting to my terminal I don't know, owning it gives
them entire control over an embedded linux to work, normally just
to run the ap.
Not to mention any inherent "lawful interception" features native
anyways, but they do that upstream themselves already tapping
every packet traversing them.
The other thing is people can/do still hack their modems, spoof
macs, literally steal bandwidth pretending to be someone else,
etc. As much as cable companies don't like to hear that, there
are always reasons/circumstances they never quite fully secure
them, and they get actively exploited. Adding now some sort of
wireless terminal into it, and receiving endpoints that can join
into bigger networks (think att, tmo, vzw, cellcos public wifi)
seems problematic to leave as a cpe in homes to be toyed with.
Motorola modems are/were always good for allowing cracking and
jtag reprogramming/control, wonder how those would be with this
feature.
Not to mention now you turn one of those magic modems on, suddenly
you see 50+ssid's with every house flooding 2.4ghz (plus their own
of course), that's gotta be lovely for anyone still stuck using
their own in 2.4 b/g/n. Good thing the 802.11ac spec is driving
everyone to 5ghz, at least until cable co's want in on that too.
-mb
On 05/07/2015 02:45 PM, Stephen Partington wrote:
As long as the customer hasi their paid for
bandwidth there should be no issue with that service set up. I
would take it the next step and provide the modem for free
with the profision that this Antenna, X we call it will be
used for that purpose so you save the cash on modem rental.
cox manages the modem and wifi for you. gives you wifi to use
as yours, and then wifi X will be used for their service.
but its all about agreed expectations and
service. Comcast was not telling anyone about this. or giveing
the option to opt in/out.