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Title: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: MrKrabs on May 02, 2015, 08:01:49 AM
They somewhat bolstered their services in my area and gave it a spin for the first time since it was first installed locally

Sure it's wifi and prone to the occasional disco but I was able to keep a decent connection with variances in host queue and not much in regular.

(http://www.speedtest.net/result/4332174630.png)

Anyone else use this regularly?  :bhead
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: The Fugitive on May 02, 2015, 08:52:40 AM
Nope, I pay for a solid wired connection through my cable company. I fly on my desktop while streaming movies to my laptop as my son is online with his game systems and my wife is browsing the internet. No problems at all. Wired is best.
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: MrKrabs on May 02, 2015, 09:07:02 AM
Nope, I pay for a solid wired connection through my cable company. I fly on my desktop while streaming movies to my laptop as my son is online with his game systems and my wife is browsing the internet. No problems at all. Wired is best.

Good for you  :aok

Now about the wifi... Ya know... The non-wired stuff this is about...  :neener:
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: The Fugitive on May 02, 2015, 09:30:46 AM
I run my tablet on my wifi, but Im sitting pretty close to the router..... which is wired.

The point is your wasting your time if your using wifi.  :aok
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: MrKrabs on May 02, 2015, 09:41:52 AM
I run my tablet on my wifi, but Im sitting pretty close to the router..... which is wired.

The point is your wasting your time if your using wifi.  :aok

Is it really wasting my time when it is my only reasonable choice to get that 1-2 days a month to maybe get to enjoy my subscription?

Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: The Fugitive on May 02, 2015, 10:32:10 AM
Is it really wasting my time when it is my only reasonable choice to get that 1-2 days a month to maybe get to enjoy my subscription?

Yes, it could be depending on your situation.
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: Bizman on May 02, 2015, 01:16:06 PM
If I understand this system correctly, it's a commercial wlanThere's one major difference between wired and wireless. Wifi is half duplex whereas wired is full duplex. That means, when an error occurs, half duplex has to wait until every incoming packet has arrived until it can send an error message. Full duplex will send the request of resending a lost packet immediately. In layman's terms, that is.
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: JimmyC on May 02, 2015, 07:04:10 PM
You can always come sit on my lap :O
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: bustr on May 13, 2015, 09:16:08 PM
Here we all thought once dialup went away, no more simplex problems.

I have always wondered in practical MA terms, if a simplex connection might not make it harder to be shot down.
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: Skuzzy on May 14, 2015, 06:44:28 AM
Here we all thought once dialup went away, no more simplex problems.

I have always wondered in practical MA terms, if a simplex connection might not make it harder to be shot down.

Nope.  No difference.  The only thing visibly different might be stutter related for the person using the half duplex connection.
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: bustr on May 14, 2015, 05:57:16 PM
Well can you make them stop stuttering long enough that I can shoot down the real one in that floppy stuttering convoluting mess others describe as stick stirring?  :O
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: RSLQK186 on May 14, 2015, 09:01:40 PM
Here we all thought once dial up went away, no more simplex problems.
Of topic, sorry Krabs.
Dial up never left. I am on 56K. Never had problems as long as there is no lighting. I have never been accused of stick sturing. No complaints of warping or shooting 2k behind someone in a cross shot and landing hits.
Sometimes I have trouble judging e and get a sudden turn out of a con when I don't expect it, but that may not be connection related. Ink in a Ki-84 can do that to a fella.
I have hit the road with my rig. Hotels can have fantastic DL speed and I can turn some eye candy up, but I have all kinds of other issues that I do not have with 56K. Think it has to do with 26K each way and a somewhat synchronise data exchange???
Title: Re: Does anyone else use Xfinity Hotspots
Post by: Traveler on May 31, 2015, 10:03:46 AM
Comcast / Xfinity in my area was really pushing this stuff when it first becoming available.  they wanted every customer to open up their modem to allow it to be used as a hot spot.  Xfinity  claimed that doing so would have no impact on your service.  What a crock.