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@pebo007 wrote: @Strikes12 wrote: @OutlawStar wrote: Do you watch any 4K Content? Because any 4K Movies/Shows you watch will eat that data up fast.  "...short of a sledgehammer, the hotspot feature is always on no matter what you do."   Correction - the person telling me the enable/disable interface settings do nothing to disable the hotspot just clarified that it only applies to Comcast's security services which are "always on". The person advised that the interface settings DO work to disable the public hotspot feature on Xfinity-branded gateways, and can be found here: https://customer.xfinity.com/#/settings/security/hotspot I set it to disable last night and thus far, still have "on-demand" hotspot customers listed as connected devices through my gateway. Takes 24 hours to have effect, so it says.     ... View more

@Strikes12 wrote: @OutlawStar wrote: Do you watch any 4K Content? Because any 4K Movies/Shows you watch will eat that data up fast.  One of us do [my set up's too out-dated or I would too]. You-Tube tends to skitter and drop, maybe due to low-end plan [internet essentials]. Or maybe something to do with the 5 extra "on-demand" hotspot riders discovered on my gateway's connected devices list while trying to figure out why internet performance all at once started degrading. DSLreports.com steered me to an interface page giving Xfinity customers option to enable/disable the hotspot feature. I just learned it only gives appearances of offering a consumer choice and short of a sledgehammer, the hotspot feature is always on no matter what you do.   ... View more

@rbezuide wrote: I also can't wait for Google fiber etc to arrive!! Google and even U-verse fiber should jump on this with adds!! Don't know about Google but anything AT&T [aka: u-verse] is ill-advised. If not service issues, then billing issues used up so many hours of my time every month on the phone, I considered invoicing them for schooling their reps. AT&T PTSD seems conditional to their terms of service. Comcast calls to inquire about their quality of service to me run a ratio of 4-to-1 to my contacting them over the last couple of years. As one among many N. Cali Camp Fire evacuee survivors, Comcast continues to bend over backwards to ensure they come through no matter where or what our circumstances are. All my AT&T serviced comrads are linking up with Comcast's free fire disaster hotspots because a month into our recovery, AT&T's services are still down. ... View more