Thread: Hiding wifi signal SHUB 1
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Old 23-09-2015, 11:58   #6
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Re: Hiding wifi signal SHUB 1
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Originally Posted by Gavin78 View Post
Some low life has been bothering him on and off, I've just found out the other day knocking on his door asking to borrow money, food and now his wifi signal until he gets his own.

My brother is one of these that doesn't want any hassle so gave him his wifi password until he got his own BB but it has been 4 weeks now and I have just found out.

So he doesn't get any hassle I'm going round his place to change the password and hide his wifi signal to try and stop the guy from scanning for it and to tell him he doesn't have BB anymore.

Failing that I said just tell the guy it's mine and I pay for it and I kicked him off. I thought turning it off would be a better option for him.

At least until I can have a word with this guy myself.

Thanks for the links, I've got my own router attached to the Shub1 but without taking my router out to have a look I wasn't sure.
One of the few cases where hiding your SSID might actually be effective then. "Hidden" networks will still show up as 'Hidden network' or 'Unknown network' in some scanners, and advanced scanners can easily tell it's the same network as before belonging to the same person, but in practice your average "low life" wouldn't have the knowledge to do this.
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