[Cerowrt-devel] wifi trick with comcast

[Cerowrt-devel] wifi trick with comcast

[Dave Taht]

https://msol.io/blog/tech/how-i-doubled-my-internet-speed-with-openwrt/

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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] wifi trick with comcast

[valdis.kletnieks]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:17:53 -0700, Dave Taht said:
> https://msol.io/blog/tech/how-i-doubled-my-internet-speed-with-openwrt/

Wonder what happens if/when the neighbor notices...

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] wifi trick with comcast

[Jonathan Morton]

> On 10 Oct, 2018, at 1:06 am, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 
> Wonder what happens if/when the neighbor notices...

I don't think any neighbour is involved here.  He's using his own xfinitywifi hotspot in parallel with his own cable connection, and summing the bandwidth allowances from each over the same physical cable connection.

The better question would be: "what happens if/when comcast notices?"

 - Jonathan Morton

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] wifi trick with comcast

[Sebastian Moeller]

Desar All,

> On Oct 10, 2018, at 00:22, Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10 Oct, 2018, at 1:06 am, valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> 
>> Wonder what happens if/when the neighbor notices...
> 
> I don't think any neighbour is involved here.  He's using his own xfinitywifi hotspot in parallel with his own cable connection, and summing the bandwidth allowances from each over the same physical cable connection.
> 
> The better question would be: "what happens if/when comcast notices?"

	I seem to recall thinking about the same trick (using one's own public hotspot), but I believe that at the time it was reported that one cannot log into one's own hotspot. But that might have been a myth....

Best Regards
	Sebastian

> 
> - Jonathan Morton
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Re: [Cerowrt-devel] wifi trick with comcast

[Joel Wirāmu Pauling]

Must have some seriously terrible speeds on the main connection to
make this worth while; i.e sub 100mbit.

The hassles with port forwarding/per connection tracking and having to
then optimise latency sensitive traffic using rules to prefer wired vs
wifi uplink etc really make this pretty niche use-case.

The only valid reason for this would be to have  a backup path; but
then again it's using the same providers network so it's not a
different AS anyway.

If you are using Multi-wan for additional speed ; then you should
probably think about getting a new provider/plan.