NobleSavage
Veteran Member
I can see 12 and I'm in a normal neighborhood, not an apartment complex. I remember the good old days when mine was the only one.
It is pretty quiet around here; I can see three SSIDs, two of which use the BigPond default naming convention, and one on the Optus default naming convention.
My SSID is hidden; it is secured with WPA2-AES with a long, strong passphrase, the router firmware has had its default admin password replaced with another long, strong passphrase, and WiFi connections are limited to devices with whitelisted MAC addresses.
My neighbours probably don't know my WiFi is there; and if they did, it would require some serious effort to break into it - it would probably be easier to physically break into the house and connect an ethernet cable than to connect to my WiFi from outside.
Given that there is not much on my home network worth stealing, except the bandwidth itself, my security is probably serious overkill. It won't stop ASIO for long, if they want to throw a lot of resources at it; but to defeat casual bandwidth thieves, all you need to do is be less easy to target than the guy next door, who likely still has the default passwords for everything, and is quite possibly using WEP.
Most suburban WiFi nodes are installed and maintained by people who don't even know that security is a thing, much less how to implement it.
A guy in my neighborhood has one called FBISurveillanceVan.
It is pretty quiet around here; I can see three SSIDs, two of which use the BigPond default naming convention, and one on the Optus default naming convention.
My SSID is hidden; it is secured with WPA2-AES with a long, strong passphrase, the router firmware has had its default admin password replaced with another long, strong passphrase, and WiFi connections are limited to devices with whitelisted MAC addresses.
My neighbours probably don't know my WiFi is there; and if they did, it would require some serious effort to break into it - it would probably be easier to physically break into the house and connect an ethernet cable than to connect to my WiFi from outside.
Given that there is not much on my home network worth stealing, except the bandwidth itself, my security is probably serious overkill. It won't stop ASIO for long, if they want to throw a lot of resources at it; but to defeat casual bandwidth thieves, all you need to do is be less easy to target than the guy next door, who likely still has the default passwords for everything, and is quite possibly using WEP.
Most suburban WiFi nodes are installed and maintained by people who don't even know that security is a thing, much less how to implement it.
It is pretty quiet around here; I can see three SSIDs, two of which use the BigPond default naming convention, and one on the Optus default naming convention.
My SSID is hidden; it is secured with WPA2-AES with a long, strong passphrase, the router firmware has had its default admin password replaced with another long, strong passphrase, and WiFi connections are limited to devices with whitelisted MAC addresses.
My neighbours probably don't know my WiFi is there; and if they did, it would require some serious effort to break into it - it would probably be easier to physically break into the house and connect an ethernet cable than to connect to my WiFi from outside.
Given that there is not much on my home network worth stealing, except the bandwidth itself, my security is probably serious overkill. It won't stop ASIO for long, if they want to throw a lot of resources at it; but to defeat casual bandwidth thieves, all you need to do is be less easy to target than the guy next door, who likely still has the default passwords for everything, and is quite possibly using WEP.
Most suburban WiFi nodes are installed and maintained by people who don't even know that security is a thing, much less how to implement it.
"Hiding" SSID is absolutely pointless.
"Hidden" SSID does not mean your neighbours don't know your WiFi is there.
It just shows your WiFi has hidden SSID, and it does not take much effort to unhide it.
A guy in my neighborhood has one called FBISurveillanceVan.
Ok, this is a random coincidence, my father said he picked up that SSID at a truck stop. In that case I can get the joke, but in your case wouldn't someone in Canada know the FBI is a US agency?
Canada has an education system? I thought it was just wood cutting and killing each other at ice hockey.I take it by your response that you are unfamiliar with the Canadian education system.
I didn't even know one could set up a guest AP.
Not that I plan on letting any guests use my WLAN any time soon.