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Rowas

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  1. Okay, so I'm wondering why we haven't really gone into detail on the hotspot-at-your-expense situation. I happen to be on Comcast myself, but I had the sense to buy my own router to avoid the monthly charges. I wasn't in the know on the hotspot since I never had it to begin with. So, for starters, does the hotspot jack in to your own network, or is the router completely sandboxing the connections? Could hackers worm their way into your stuff? Next, speed. When people are using the hotspot, does that take away your bandwidth? I mean it's Comcast, so it wouldn't be a shock to me if it did; this meaning that they would get your router rental cash, the hotspot rental cash... and cash for the service YOU pay for, which you can't even enjoy because Comcast is busy whoring out your bandwidth to random strangers. Despite having my own router, we still have slow connections sometimes. I'm pretty sure it's because of a lot of new development in the area -> more people -> saturated connections since everyone is on Comcast streaming Netflix and the one and only ISP here is Comcast and they don't feel like servicing our neighborhood to accommodate the burgeoning number of customers in the area.
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