Comment by rasz
4 months ago
In 2014 Liberty Global decided to offer UPC Wifi Free - free roaming wifi on all cable modems they manage. Your own modem would advertise HotSpot and share your own cable connection. In theory you could opt out, in practice when I tried it just meant removing my login credentials while my box still shared and disabling Wifi locally would bring it back after a while. Thankfully Cisco EPC3925 uses BCM43225 mpcie Wifi card and unplugging it removes all mentions of wireless functionality from Setup, problem solved.
This is exactly what Comcast does with their Xfinity service if you use one of their devices.
It's something you can disable with a toggle.