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Saturday, November 15th, 2025 3:15 PM

Nonexistent support for Wifi pass

I gave over a week in an apparently vain attempt to get my laptop to connect to the Wifi network. I bought a new pass for the phone with the hope that waiting a week might get the laptop to connect to the network. No such luck. The laptop still refuses to connect to the network. For the tech types who may or may not read this, I tried using Event Viewer to give some clues which didn't help.

Ideally someone at xfinity can give me what the issue is on their end. Look at my account name and schedule a time so I can try to connect the laptop to the network. xfinity can then determine what the connection problem is on THEIR end of the network. Clearly I can't connect but I am not able to. Maybe the answer is obvious. Just don't give me the runaround of going to chat assistant which didn't solve anything and to make matter worse just told me to go to an Xfinity store which turned out to be a complete waste of time.

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7 days ago

@user_ebev31 Have you tried enabling mobile hotspot on your phone to see if it can connect that way?

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@DreamSayerZ​ Yes. I ended up buying the pass on my mobile device. My theory is that once the pass expired then the laptop isn't allowed to connect to the network since the pass expired. Since you can't connect back to the network then you can't sign the laptop as a device to the network. You need to be able to have network access to either buy a pass or if you have a pass to connect the device to the network.

Not saying my theory is correct or not but it seems a good theory. I used event viewer to see if I had some quirky issues with the laptop. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary with regards to the laptop but Event viewer is only going to tell you on problems on your end.

I waited a week before after buying a new pass in the hope that maybe Xfinity updates its database to see if that resolved the problem. 

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5 days ago

Good Morning, @user_ebev31! Thank you so much for taking the time to reach out to us here on the Xfinity Forums! I do apologize for the frustrations with the Wi-Fi pass and the connected devices. I know you mentioned you bought a pass for the mobile device separately, did that resolve the concerns? Did you chat through the Xfinity Assistant for any troubleshooting steps with the Wifi pass? 

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