Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers

Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by virtuallynathan on Thursday November 19, 2015 @01:09PM (#10596359)

Yes, it depends what the issue is. We check:

- If your modem is EOL

- If you modem's ethernet port is 100Mbps, and you have >100Mbps service

- If your modem is otherwise capable of providing your speed (i.e. number of DOCSIS channels)

- We check your signal levels to make sure they are in spec

- We check if you have been impacted by our Protocol Agnostic Congestion management system in the past 1 day or 30 days.

If any of these checks are triggered, we show it on the page. If nothing is triggered, we allow you to go straight to a chat.

We'll be adding more checks as time goes on, mostly around Wifi - MCS Index, Link rate, RSSI, etc.

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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by douche on Thursday November 19, 2015 @01:23PM (#10596477)

Thanks for the response. If I can keep bothering you, is any of this specific to using Comcast-provided equipment?

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Re:Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyrigh... by virtuallynathan on Thursday November 19, 2015 @01:30PM (#10596533)

Yes, all of the wifi stuff we add in the future will be only possible on comcast-provided wireless gateways (XB2/XB3). We have some other nifty ideas that would use our gateways too. Most of the existing stuff I mentioned is not specific to comcast-provided devices, or wireless gateways.

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