Strange SSID in the air...
Hi,
I've been noticing that one of my neighbors occassionally spits out the SSID "hpsetup", unencrypted on channel 1 (2.412Ghz), in adhoc mode.
I'm not going to mess with it, but was curious as to what it may be? A printer? A previous adhoc connection on one of their computers (laptop) that is trying to "re-connect" (that WinXP bug)?
The owners appear to be security minded since their main SSID has a unique SSID and is WPA-PSK'd... Makes me wonder if they even know they are radiating this unencrypted "hpsetup"....
Out of respect, I moved one of my SSID's off of channel 1 and onto channel
- I'd move it further, but I'm already clobbering the air here on channels 2, 6, 11, 52, and 152. (52 and 152 are 802.11a)
Posted 5 years ago by Eric in Wireless Networking
