Comcast’s xFi-branded WiFi extension pods are now available to its broadband customers nationwide.

The xFi upgrades are designed to make Comcast stand out in the market, but there’s not a whole lot of market left, writes Michelle Caffrey at bizjournals.com.

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Residential broadband’s penetration rate is at 80.2 percent, says MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett, and subscriber growth in the market has fallen from about 4 percent, where it stood for nearly five years, to 2.3 percent last quarter. That’s a more sustainable number, Moffett said, and assuming it plateaus at about 2 percent is “not a crazy assumption,” he said.

Another one to file under “doesn’t look good” in the broadband department: ZDNet reports that two security researchers found a bug on Comcast’s website that, by going through the company’s system to activate a router, allowed anyone with access to a home’s full address to get the name and password for its WiFi network.

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