TommyCarey
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I was actually pretty blown away by this when my friend came over to my house and logged into his tablet using my xfinity connection. I knew he didn't know my wifi password because he's never needed it because he always used his phone. But when he was on his tablet I asked him if he turned his phone into a hotspot and he said "Nope, I'm using your internet but I hacked it!!!!"
Now I didn't really care if he actually hacked it because he was my friend lol. But I needed to know how he did this, because I wanted to do it also muahahahaha!!!
He began to tell me that if you are a subscriber to xfinity you can use any other xfinity members connection as a hotspot because they partition a section off so that random people can use this feature when they aren't at their own house. I thought this was insane lol.
And this isn't some crazy difficult thing either, it's rather simple to connect. Have you ever been out and seen the connection labeled "Xfinity" or (Xfinity-SomeNumbersHere) connections? That's it! If you click on that and add your xfinity login info you can use that persons house as if it were a hotspot lol 
You don't even have to know the people. You can literally be at a park in the middle of a bunch of houses and connect to someones wifi by using this method. Granted it has to be close enough to be able to connect, but it's still pretty cool
I probably would have known about it earlier but my girlfriend pays for our internet/TV lol Do you have an antenna that increases your wifi reach? I had one a while ago but got rid of it.
If someone was connected to you I would think it could slow down your connection a bit. I've never actually used this hotspot trick because I didn't know about it until my friend showed me :D I probably would have known about it earlier but my girlfriend pays for our internet/TV lol :D
A router that is .25 miles away? not bad :D Do you have an antenna that increases your wifi reach? I had one a while ago but got rid of it.
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Well if you have xfinity then anyone else who is paying a monthly fee will be able to connect to your home connection if they wanted. I don't think there's any way of closing this off or stopping it :(
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Everett
There is only 1 which is odd because you state that all Xfinity households are Xfinity hotspots, however since I live in a neighborhood which contains a lot of housing, and since Xfinity has a monopoly in the area you'd think there would be more hotspots to choose from? Believe it or not I can actually connect to this specific hotspot from .25 miles down the street. The person who owns that hotspot must have a pretty great router, huh? I don't like this at all. Wouldn't this slow down the connection, or even slow down your own internet speeds? I have Xfinity as well, and I do use the Xfinity hotspot quite often, especially when my internet goes out. [url=https://www.seoclerk.com/files/user/images/xfinity-hotspot.png][img]https://www.seoclerk.com/files/user/images/xfinity-hotspot.png[/img][/url] There is only 1 which is odd because you state that all Xfinity households are Xfinity hotspots, however since I live in a neighborhood which contains a lot of housing, and since Xfinity has a monopoly in the area you'd think there would be more hotspots to choose from? Believe it or not I can actually connect to this specific hotspot from .25 miles down the street. The person who owns that hotspot must have a pretty great router, huh?
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