ISPs smuggling public WiFi into customer's homes?

At one point in time, I had a "business" cable Internet connection, and they shipped me a cable modem, without my permission, and were getting insistent on getting it installed. I balked, because I picked my cable modem for damn good reasons and didn't want a power hog, noisy ass POS clogging my server closet. Part of this is that I separate modem and wifi so I can load things like OpenWRT and have control over my network setup. I …

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