All Xfinity households are hotstpots for other Xfinity members

I was actually pretty blown away by this when my friend came over to my house and logged into his tablet using my xfinity connection. I knew he didn't know my wifi password because he's never needed it because he always used his phone. But when he was on his tablet I asked him if he turned his phone into a hotspot and he said "Nope, I'm using your internet but I hacked it!!!!"

Now I didn't really care if he actually hacked it because he was my friend lol. But I needed to know how he did this, because I wanted to do it also muahahahaha!!!

He began to tell me that if you are a subscriber to xfinity you can use any other xfinity members connection as a hotspot because they partition a section off so that random people can use this feature when they aren't at their own house. I thought this was insane lol.

And this isn't some crazy difficult thing either, it's rather simple to connect. Have you ever been out and seen the connection labeled "Xfinity" or (Xfinity-SomeNumbersHere) connections? That's it! If you click on that and add your xfinity login info you can use that persons house as if it were a hotspot lol

You don't even have to know the people. You can literally be at a park in the middle of a bunch of houses and connect to someones wifi by using this method. Granted it has to be close enough to be able to connect, but it's still pretty cool