Comcast on Tuesday said it disagreed with a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company’s plan to turn home Internet routers into Wi-Fi hotspots threatens privacy, wastes energy and clogs Internet capacity.

“We disagree with the allegations in this lawsuit and believe our Xfinity WiFi home hotspot program provides real benefits to our customers,” Comcast said in a brief statement. “We provide information to our customers about the service and how they can easily turn off the public WiFi hotspot if they wish.”

The statement, issued from Comcast headquarters in Philadelphia, directed subscribers to a company website listing “frequently asked questions” and answers about the Xfinity Wifi program.

The suit was filed last week in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on behalf of two Pittsburg residents, Toyer Grear and her daughter Joycelyn Harris, who claimed Comcast’s plan to connect their home Wi-Fi router to a nationwide network of eight million hotspots was “exploiting them for profit.”

You can read more about the suit HERE.

We’ve heard from several readers wondering if they had also had a secondary Wi-Fi signal. You can tell if your mobile phones, tablets or laptops pick up a Wi-Fi signal named “xfinitywifi.”

Our colleague Dwight Silverman at our sister paper, the Houston Chronicle, posted a guide to how to turn off the secondary signal, along with tips for buying your own cable modem that Comcast can’t connect to its hotspot network.

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