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Re:IP address errors lead to wrongful arrests by grepthisab on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @05:23PM (#16056393)
Sure, but it's going through your router, right? So if you were torrenting and someone else jumped on the xfinity wifi and started torrenting, it would affect your ability to use your bandwidth, right?
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Re:IP address errors lead to wrongful arrests by ars on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:50PM (#16057393)
As another post said, only jitter (and only minorly).

Bandwidth would be unaffected. Or more exactly, on WiFi (but not Ethernet): as affected as if your close neighbor used that amount (since WiFi itself has limited bandwidth). The connection from the router to the cable modem has lots of headroom, so that would be unaffected, as would wired connections.

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Re:IP address errors lead to wrongful arrests by meotai on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:08PM (#16056744)
yea, xfinitywifi affected our jitter test. We called Comcast to disable it & our jitter went down.
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