i had always thought it was a option on the router
The feature is inside the gateway. It is the guest radio repurposed to broadcast Cox's hotspot. However the interface for the feature is not inside the gateway UI. Just a guess but it downloads and activates from the config. file, which is based on how the account is provisioned. Just like you can't log into the gateway and change your services, you cant login and change the hotspot feature.
He should be able to disable the hotspot online, and THEN reboot the modem and load the new cfg file without the hotspot. FYI the hotspot will NOT use your bandwidth, NOR will it slow you down as it doesn't utilize your bandwidth.
as it doesn't utilize your bandwidth.
Doesn't it still use the bandwidth provided by the gateway technically? I mean if you using 1Gbps speed for your own network and 5 people are connected to the gateway's hotspot using 50Mbps each. Where does that bandwidth come from if not the gateway?
Of course a hot spot can slow me down. A router only has one CPU and so much RAM. If lingerers are connecting to MY router, lingerers are consuming time on my CPU, space in my RAM and adding more congestion in my ether.
The 250 MB in your example must exit the router through another wire besides the coaxial cable. Mmm...perhaps its power cord?
