On 11/23/2013 12:31 PM, BAR wrote:


Why would you want to expose your internet connection to anyone and everyone within range.
When the government comes to you and says where were you doing illegal operations from your
internet connection what are you going to say?



Forgot to mention in my previous reply:

In our particular case, there's another reason I am not concerned about
this feature.

Our house is way too far from the road (950 feet) for anyone just
passing by to receive the signal. The closest neighbor has Verizon Fios
as a Internet service, and they are too far away from our house to get a
usable signal from our router. Even if they managed to get the signal,
they wouldn't be able to connect because they don't have a Comcast account.

Our primary network in the house was "unsecured" for years because there
isn't anybody else close enough to use it. It's secured now by default
with the new modem/router which requires it to be WPS2 secured.