Posted on 04/07/2019 3:27:25 PM PDT by Chickensoup
OK I brought the new computer home today and was finishing the set up and when I went to connect it to the wifi I note that there is a wifi connection called "Hidden connection" and it is password protected. I am on lots of acreage in the woods, and the nearest house is probably 3-500 yards away.
I checked with everyone in our house, no one knows about hidden network. Any ideas? I have a fair-sized linksys wifi with four or six of those aerials sticking up in back.
What does this mean? is there someone on my wifi? If so how?
I would appreciate some information here. Never saw this before.
Mine is called NSA Surveillance Van #5.
Newest router/wifi systems are potent enough to pick up a neighbors wifi
I got 7 neighbors wifi on the list. One I know is unprotected and I’ve joined it on a lark for a few minutes.
unplug your cable modem and see if it goes away.
Keep your WIFI on.
See what it says now.
You have a new computer? Does it have built in WiFi while your still using your dongle thingy out the USB?
Do have a WiFI extender in your house.
Wow, I need to get out today.
It’s probably your cat. They are more advanced than we know.
Can you give me a few minutes before you fix it?? I’m almost done downloading the 8-chan Q-Anon/Wikileaks smoking gun Trump Collusion Coup-de-Tate/Seth Richards, etc. info.
just a few more minutes...
Then I’ll make your hidden-network get resolved...
:-)
Just put condoms over your router antenna’s and you will be protected.
Are you going to work that our ahead of time?
( : >)
LOL! No worries on that. I can’t remember what sex, let alone kinky sex is.
It’s from that implant they put in your head. You know, remember the morning you woke up with the bad headache!
Yeah, I can see you, too. You gotta head to Walmart - those underwear are looking pretty threadbare. (And for God's sake, don't buy thongs this time. You can't rock 'em at your age anymore.🤣 )
Are you talking you seeing an SSID called “hidden connection”?
You can go on your wifi router to see it its on it
You can also have other Wireless devices advertising and SSID things like a wireless printers
You can download a wireless tool app on your phone and go sniffing around
to find the device by signing strength...
Why hide them?
I have three signals ...
ICE SURVEILLANCE STATION 1
ICE SURVEILLANCE STATION 2
and for guests...
HILLARY FOR PRISON!
As a couple other FReepers have suggested, the most likely explanation is:
No more kinky sex in the house until you find it.
Put some clothes on. Or not, depending... :-)
Take it back to vendor, ASAP... Remain calm... Stay in your underground shelter until the problem is fixed... {:-)
ROFL!!
The answer you’re after:
New routers from Verizon and Xfinity have a “Hidden Network” as part of a new initiative to boost speeds without installing actual infrastructure. It’s a new way to extend signal to hard to reach places like the rural midwest where 1 tower is enough to supply a whole zip code by bouncing signal off routers in the neighborhood. To get rid of this “HIdden Network” you have to log into your Verizon, or Comcast account and Opt Out. You can do so in your account or call customer service. Someone from technical support will access your router, stop the Hidden Network, and you should see a small boost of 30mb in performance from your router.
Here are some additional information about what’s happening.
http://uproxx.com/technology/comcast-makes-customer-routers-public-wifi-points/
http://www.cnet.com/news/comcast-expands-wi-fi-network-with-new-neighborhood-initiative/
I’d have to disagree. What is that thingie next to the lazyboy?
I set up one my networks to FBI Scout. Two days later a new neighbor who paid cash for the house, pack his family up and left. Abandon the house...
This was a week after they had a new pool install. They only live in the house for two months... Nobody knows who they really are.
I will have to set one up for ICE Surveillance now...
And you will be the reason we get Skynet.
Thanks for that!
;-)
but I have Spectrum. Although my phone is a verizon dumb phone.
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