How to set up repeater from xfinitywifi

[Dan Dascalescu]

How can a router (or some other device) be set up as a repeater from the xfinitywifi access point? (I don't have or need a Comcast modem at this location, but I have a Comcast account.)

When I login to xfinitywifi, I need to enter my Comcast user/pass on a web page. Is there a way to automate that process on a router, which would then rebroadcast the signal within my place?

 

[thiggins]

How do your other Wi-Fi devices handle the login?

 

[sfx2000]

How do your other Wi-Fi devices handle the login?

If it's like other CableWiFi setups I've seen, it's a captive portal page - with CoxHSI, it's Hotspot 2.0 compliant, not sure if it does Passpoint, but it might...

 

[Dan Dascalescu]

How do your other Wi-Fi devices handle the login?

They don't, unless they have some sort of browser that I can login with. That's why I want to set up a sane router in repeater mode.

 

[thiggins]

If it's like other CableWiFi setups I've seen, it's a captive portal page - with CoxHSI, it's Hotspot 2.0 compliant, not sure if it does Passpoint, but it might...

So every Wi-Fi device has to authenticate through a captive portal? What about devices that don't have browser interfaces?

 

[sfx2000]

So every Wi-Fi device has to authenticate through a captive portal? What about devices that don't have browser interfaces?

xfinitywifi SSID is the public/shared hotspot one that is covered by the captive portal...

OP is trying to access that one... not the private one

 

[thiggins]

xfinitywifi SSID is the public/shared hotspot one that is covered by the captive portal...

OP is trying to access that one... not the private one

Ah. Sorry. I thought something didn't smell right.