Service set

So we've talked about this a lot on our show.

So when you get your shiny new broadband connection, your nice one gig internet connection, if your router is not set up properly, because you can have the 2.4 gigahertz SSID, the five gigahertz SSID, you can even have the band six and band seven, all these different flavors.

If you don't use the proper device with the proper band, you may not get the best performance.

And the problem is it's called broadband steering that's happening.

And they're trying to make it convenient for you as a user to actually use your internet and have the device try to figure out what SSID speed to use.

But when it negotiates the wrong one, you get poorer performance.

So if you need something at a longer distance, like a Wi-Fi doorbell cam, you want to choose a 2.4 gigahertz broadband.

The battery will last longer.

You can still do it.

Even if you turn on anonymous SSID, you can still do it on some of the routers out there because people don't bother to go in and turn on any enhanced security.

And then the last one, which this one popped up today, is Quest Diagnostics.

um if you've used i mean any kind of um lab stuff that you you probably had your stuff go through quest and they had a data breach so waiting to see if how how extensive the breach is but that's just in the last week and normally those attacks happen sporadically out over a 12-month period these all happen within about a week so i'm assuming that the cyber attack surfaces will continue to uptick And we'll see more cyber attacks in the coming weeks.

We were the first ones to do a lot of things on Wi-Fi.

First one with multiple SSIDs, first Wi-Fi in airplanes.

But we were also the first one to really go big in the hospitality market.

So if we go back to 2003 timeframe, 2004, that's when hotels started to pay attention to Wi-Fi.

Router.

The network name, or SSID, is the public identifier you see when searching for wireless networks to connect to.

Network name.

Netzwerk name.

Additionally, MAC addresses can be spoofed or changed by software.

SSIDs, which stand for Service Set Identifiers, are the names you see when you look for available WiFi networks on your device, and they represent the human-readable interface to the technical WiFi network underneath.

When your router broadcasts a Wi-Fi signal, it includes its SSID in the broadcast, essentially announcing itself to any device that is listening for networks.

You see a list of SSIDs when you open the Wi-Fi settings on your phone or computer.

and you select one to connect to.

Each SSID can represent a different network or a different frequency band from the same router, and you can have multiple SSIDs broadcasting from a single physical device.

Routers often create separate SSIDs for 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, allowing devices to connect to their preferred band.

You can customize your SSID to any name you want, and many people choose names that are meaningful to them or that indicate what kind of network it is.

If you're in an airport, if you're in a hotel, if you're at a coffee shop, if you're just in an apartment complex, you'll see a lot of different wireless networks suddenly popping up.

Those wireless names... corporate one, wireless guest, wireless employee, those are referred to as SSIDs or service set identifiers.

For example, on this network, the SSID is SGC1.

That is the SSID of this network.

So if you came to my house, you would just see one network, but it's really four different access points that are providing that signal, that access to that one single network.

Well, how then can you tell apart all of those four access points? That's effectively the question that we posed for you here in this study group.

How do you computer tell them apart? It tells them apart with a basic service set identifier B SSID.

And in fact, this access point here, the SSID or the network name is SGC one, but the B SSID is six zero three Delta two six one one two two three three.