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Yeah, I don't like this at all. this is just another reason to never use a "company router" and to run all of your own gear if you can.

Archive: https://archive.today/aGltl

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>WiFi Motion is provided to you as part of your Xfinity Internet services and subject to the Xfinity Residential Services Agreement and our Xfinity Privacy Policy. Comcast does not monitor the motion and/or notifications generated by the service. The placement of your Xfinity Gateway and WiFi-connected devices, along with your home size, layout, and building materials, can impact the way WiFi signals connect and may limit the ability of the service to detect motion. WiFi Motion will function only in areas of your home where you have strong WiFi signals traveling between your gateway and your WiFi-connected devices, and Comcast does not guarantee or warrant performance.

Yeah, I don't like this at all. this is just another reason to never use a "company router" and to run all of your own gear if you can. Archive: https://archive.today/aGltl From the post: >>WiFi Motion is provided to you as part of your Xfinity Internet services and subject to the Xfinity Residential Services Agreement and our Xfinity Privacy Policy. Comcast does not monitor the motion and/or notifications generated by the service. The placement of your Xfinity Gateway and WiFi-connected devices, along with your home size, layout, and building materials, can impact the way WiFi signals connect and may limit the ability of the service to detect motion. WiFi Motion will function only in areas of your home where you have strong WiFi signals traveling between your gateway and your WiFi-connected devices, and Comcast does not guarantee or warrant performance.
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This is my BIGGEST issue with these motherfuckers. I REFUSE to use their equipment. As punishment, they limit our data monthly to 1.2 Terabyes. 3 people who heavily use the internet, we go through almost that every month. If one of us wants to download a game, we have to let everyone else know because it will fuck our data cap amounts for the month. I fucking HATE it. But our only alternative is Century Link which isn't an alternative. There's a fiber company that keeps saying they're expanding our way, but it's been 4 years now and my hopes aren't high anymore.

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Build a Faraday cage around their router and plug in your own WiFi access point to the ethernet on the router instead.

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All that, and pay the 35 a month rental fee? I am disappointed in you, alien man

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Enjoy Centurylink then.

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If you download via steam it is possible to setup a steam-proxy in your house on something like a Raspberry PI so that it only needs to be downloaded once then it will be cached for anyone else in the house. It can cut your bandwidth usage a lot.

If you are interested I can probably post something over in /s/selfhosted on how to set it up. Its not as hard as you would think. Steam does also have a local library sharing thing but I think you have to be logged into the same account on different computers for it to download to the other (local) computer... Which is stupid. Ill have to look into that again.

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We do use the family-sahre thingy. It does help. But with most modern games hitting 100gb of data PER GAME, it adds up quickly.

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yeah, that is a good point. I know it would cost more but you could always have a dual-wan setup with a slower un-capped connection to download stuff overnight or something. It takes more effort to setup and might be annoying but it is what it is.

Just throwing out random ideas.

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To anyone that trusts Comcast/Xfinity will honor their not monitoring motion, I've got a bridge for sale.