three Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot' tricks please note that all three of these
tricks require no cracking no hacking and if you're a Xfinity subscriber like
myself it's perfectly acceptable so trick number one is if you find yourself
getting close to your one terabyte limit for the month which I mean I honestly
haven't done that in many many months the last time it happened to me was I
had a hard drive died on me and I had to redownload all my Steam games it was
well over a terabytes so one thing I found interesting based on a lot of
forums and information that I read if you actually connect to the Xfinity Wi-Fi
hotspot that's broadcasting from your Xfinity
modem and you're just using that connection and that's your primary Wi-Fi
that does not count towards your monthly data usage so if you're in a pinch and
you need a little more than a terabyte for that month you can get connected to
it and just continue downloading as needed
now Comcast Xfinity can correct this very easily by simply checking when
you're using the data so when you first connect to the Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot you
do have to log in with your Xfinity account so trick number one if you're
near your terabyte limit get connected to the Xfinity Wi-Fi broadcast hotspot
and continue downloading on to trick number two I pay about a hundred bucks a
month for my xfinity comcast internet and I only get an upload 5 mbps
So when I'm in a pinch & I really need to upload a large file I bond my primary connection with my xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot that's broadcasting off my equipment to
illustrate this I'm going to connect to the Xfinity Wi-Fi
and then I am going to use a program called speedify that can actually bond
the two connections together now I will leave a link in the description below it
is free for up to five gigs however if you want to go above that it is a
monthly subscription I was lucky enough to get a Black Friday sale so it was
pretty cheap but if you're just using it to upload large videos to YouTube or to
somewhere else and you want to utilize that extra speed you can do so with the
five gig free version so I'm gonna go ahead and load that up just to show you
what it's like it has detected my Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot and it is also
detected my Ethernet cable because I only have one Wi-Fi card on this laptop
so let's go ahead and test it now how this works is the software connects to a
speedify server for both connections and then it can bond it and send it back so
right now as you can see the Xfinity Wi-Fi is capped so it is a little slow
but I'm not really interested in the extra download speed I'm more interested
in the extra upload speed when it's bonded together
it's gonna be interesting if I actually get above five on my Ethernet but during
peak hours I generally do not. Around five sweet that's about what I normally
get now it's not gonna give me ten but it will give it a little bit
extra connection speed okay it increased it quite a bit so see that's what I'm
interested in for me to get ten upload I have to pay more money I have to get a
lot I have to go up like three services because whenever you're buying your
services through Xfinity or Comcast they always tell you about the download
speeds they never tell you about the upload speeds you literally have to ask
what is the upload speed for this connection what am i guaranteed what do
I normally get etc so by bonding the two connections that's that are now keep in
mind the Xfinity Wi-Fi it's already being broadcasted it's put aside for
people to use and since I'm a subscriber I am allowed to use it and as I said
I'll leave a link in the description below so you can try this out for
yourself it it's got the five gig free version so you could do your own testing
with this on the trick number three Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspots actually can be
used by normal everyday people however when you connect to them it asks for a
sign up plan you can get a month I'll actually sign in and show the plans but
it also has a complimentary 30 minutes a month for one user however they really
don't check it all that much - and I'll get into how they could rectify their
own problem but let's go ahead and get connected and I can show you what I mean
here
okay so I have told my system to login as if it is a new user and not
associated with my xfinity comcast login so if you don't have Comcast and
you connect to a Xfinity hotspot this is what you should see, not an Xfinity
customer no problem so let's go ahead and hit get started
okay so it gives you all these different plans and everything if you want to try
it for an hour it's three bucks yada yada so they have a complimentary hour
pass but sometimes it says half an hour depending on your location enjoy an hour
so let's go ahead and click on that and
hit continue no thank you
now this is where it's the whole I don't think it really checks it before you do
it so we're just gonna go John Doe it's a just first name so doe email
and I'm just putting in any old email you can make it up doesn't matter that
might exist I have no idea and I'll just put any old zip code so hit continue
was your favorite movie doesn't matter first thing I thought of
continue
activate pass your pass is activated ok so right now you are on Xfinity Wi-Fi I
just made a random account and in 72 hours that account will die so let's try
some stuff
awesome so that's a free hour every month now if you're in a pinch like
you're unemployed or you just moved and they haven't moved things over or you're
going from CenturyLink to Comcast or whatever the connection
may be let's say you use it for an hour and you're done you now no longer have
internet access what you can do is use something called a mac changer what you
can do is you can change your MAC address that is literally the only thing
they are using to check this when in all reality all they have to do is do an
actual email authentication if they if they get a bounce-back from a fake email
they shouldn't let you on so that that I kind of that's kind of their fault for
not checking it and keep in mind this is tape this is not utilizing any cracking
or any hacking whatsoever so to simulate that I'm gonna disconnect I'm gonna
forget this I'm gonna close the browser I'm gonna load up my Mac changer and
I'll leave a link to the description below for this so it's it's free what it
does is it the free version just changes a couple of numbers on it it doesn't
change the full you can't put in your own but that's enough to fake out the
Xfinity Wi-Fi and allow you back on so I've gone ahead and changed it and right
now even though I've already been on a certificate it should ask me for a new
one
and there you go we're right back in
complementary our pass I can literally just keep doing this and doing this and
doing this over and over and over again now the downside to this is every hour
you have to put in a different email make an account and get back on but in a
pinch if you absolutely have to get on the internet and this is your only
option I don't see an issue with it they may it's it's a pretty nifty little
trick to continue using the internet so that is three separate tricks you can
use on the Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot that's broadcasting from your home or in
your area like I said before there are many ways that Comcast can fix this it
may change in the future for instance they can start counting
data on your Xfinity Wi-Fi hotspot when you're logged in under your accounts
they can use some type of detection for bonding which honestly I don't think is
a problem you are us you are a paid subscriber you should be able to use
both connections to boost your speed especially if it's in your home and last
but not least for the free complimentary hour all they have to do is validate
that it is a valid email if they get a bounce-back that it's an invalid email
don't let the person on so Xfinity and Comcast this should be able to fix these
problems or or flukes glitches hiccups whatever you want to call them but for
the time being you can use them to your advantage and the software is free and
there's no hacking cracking programming or anything involved or advanced
networking and I hope you guys found this informative and try it out yourself