In the growing technology competition, Comcast has launched Xfinity xFi, billed as “a new Wi-Fi experience” that can be controlled via a mobile app, website and on the TV with the X1 voice remote.
Customers in Mississippi and elsewhere can set up a digital dashboard in their home Wi-Fi network, find their password, see what devices are connected, troubleshoot issues, set parental controls and even pause Wi-Fi access on their home network during dinner or bedtime. They also can create personal profiles and assign devices to individual family members.
And it’s available to Xfinity Internet customers at no extra cost, says. The xFi-enabled device that is in 10 million homes today will now be called the “xFi Wireless Gateway.”
To get started, they should visit www.xfinity.com/myxfi or download the xFi app (for iOS and Android).
This year, 86 percent of in-home broadband use will travel over Wi-Fi, and by 2020 Americans will have an average of 50 Wi-Fi connected devices in their homes, according to Comcast. These devices are often referred to as the Internet of Things.
“The adoption and use of connected devices has grown dramatically and Comcast has created a solution that makes it easy to control and manage them,” Eric Schaefer, senior vice president of Internet and Communications Services for Comcast Cable, said in a news release.
