Posted on 12/03/2012 10:15:55 AM PST by Wuli
I have a WiFi capable PC, and use that ability to connect a PC to a Verizon FIOs Hub/Router at home, from which I get my Internet Access.
Sometimes my PC is not in the same room as the Verizon hub, and when it is not then the wireless connection is at different states/strengtghs, usually less than excellent.
When the little icon for the wireless connection shows the connection is weak, or dead, I can get a slight improvement by brining up the little window that shows all wireless connections the computer finds available, and then disconnecting and reconnecting the one that represents my Verizon Hub.
There has always been two other "hotspots" showing, that don't belong to me. They could be anywhere among the neighbors around me.
When I was having the problem last week, one afternoon, I noticed that for about one half hour, and no longer, there was an extra wireless connection available that was labeled "FBI Surveillance Van".
O.K.; they could have been trolling, without a warrant or otherwise; but would they also be so stupid to identify their wireless router as "FBI Surveillance Van".???
Our neighbors named their wifi “FBI_SURVAN9”
Ours is named ‘NOFREEWIFI4U”
name yours something cool and enjoy
I think I’ll go back and re-name mine Galt’s Gulch, or maybe 2nd Amendment Redoubt.
I got an email a while back, chain mail, that gave ideas for people to do to have fun with their neighbor.
That exact name for your wifi was suggested.
Unfortunately, if you live in an apartment, odds are at least one of the SSIDs will use profanity.
It can pinpoint a purr at four hundred yards, so a measly router is a piece of cake!
That shouldn’t be funny (but I got a chuckle from it ;-)
LOL!!
Are all your pets called Eric?
Now about half the home wireless networks in the country are named "FBI Surveillance Van" or some such.
One of our neighbors...well, I hope it a neighbor...has theirs named OVERLORD. Now some of them are older and could be WWII vets and understand the significance of the name but I’m not sure they’d have the tech savvy to rename the router.
If it isn’t a neighbor, then I need to get the aluminum foil up on the windows ASAP!
I once considered renaming my home network NAKED PIX OF YOUR WIFE.
a buddy uses some SSID like “Free Streaming Porn Server”, and then lays on WPA encryption that the popular cracking tools can’t break.
Sad thing is, it’s both funny and not funny at the same time.
Even if it doesn’t act up, they might shoot it anyway, just to be safe.
my router is named “FBI Surveillance Van 6”
I hid my name, so ignorant neighbors wouldn’t try to connect to it.
The FBI is notoriously tech-stupid when it comes to computers.
My SSID is “Keep Driving A**hole.”
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