Has anyone out there in McLean - Tysons noticed people WiFi squatting in neighborhoods in their vehicles? We believe this happened over a 3 day period in our neighborhood. Why would someone do this when all types of coffee shops, cafes, malls,etc have free WiFi? And in very hot weather. He was not homeless. Called FCPD who asked the person to move along. Appreciate any input.

Comcast and possibly the other ISP s wi-fi is now installed as a double--each individual installation is being installed and enabled both for the home as well as a local hotspot. You can call Comcast and Verizon to try and get them to disable the "hotspot" function operating off of your installation, but they often refuse to do it. The big problem with this is that everyone with a finder map driving around is sucking off your free internet WIFI, and it causes major signal losses when you are trying to use it too. You are paying for 50 mbts/sec and with the locals logging on as free users, you are trying to surf, game and play videos with 5 mb/sec due to the piggybacking off your signal.

They do this so that in a national or local emergency, they can turn everyone's internet signals into a blanket over the area that responders etc can still use for emergency communications. But, if your data is capped, you will pay mightily by everyone using it beyond your capped amount for free. And the ISP s are now going to data usage caps on everyone's internet installations--Comcast is capping usage on all areas in the future.

Just another way they can charge and screw us, giving it out free to non-paying users. It should be shut off except in emergencies, and the isp providers and the users with the internet access devices should have to pay for any data usage by buying their own time on the public hotspots provided.