networking performance issue(s)

On 12/3/18 10:58 AM, 123456789 wrote:

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But most as you say are unidentifiable. One SSID in my neighborhood
is quite creative. It's "FBI Van #3"...Â* :-)

One I see a lot is "FBI Surveillance", although I may also see "Batcave".

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On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 17:55:17 -0700, 123456789 wrote:

On 12/3/2018 5:07 PM, Ken Blake wrote:

The average burglar would never use the knowledge of whether your
router was on to tell whether you are home.

Agreed. Especially a non-neighborhood burglar that wouldn't even know a
WiFi signal is missing.

He wouldn't think of doing
that, and he probably wouldn't know how to find out.

Course I suppose some technical savvy neighbors might notice.


They wouldn't recognize the name as being from my house. The name was
chosen to make that hard to guess.


How well
do you trust your neighbors?


Some neighbors are friends who I know and trust. Others I don't know
at all. So I don't want to trust them as a group.


Or your neighbors kids... 8-O

If anyone were to try to do this, it would only be a burglar very
skilled technically, and probably only one that operated in expensive
neighborhoods.

If this is a targeted burglary then there are many other easier ways to
determine if the residence is occupied than to monitor the WiFi.


Of course. Ringing the doorbell is one of them.

On 12/4/2018 8:07 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 17:55:17 -0700, 123456789
wrote:

some technical savvy neighbors might notice.[WiFi off]

They wouldn't recognize the name as being from my house. The name was
chosen to make that hard to guess.

Just leave your WiFi on all the time. Then even if it's identifiable
they'll think you're home. Solves needless paranoia...

Why do folk's need to turn their WiFi off when leaving anyway? Save a
few cents in electricity??

How well do you trust your neighbors?

Some neighbors are friends who I know and trust. Others I don't know
at all. So I don't want to trust them as a group.

In my area many juvenile burglaries occur within a few blocks of home.

If this is a targeted burglary then there are many other easier
ways to determine if the residence is occupied than to monitor the
WiFi.

Of course. Ringing the doorbell is one of them.

Bad idea these days. You'll get your picture taken (doorbell camera).
Don't know if the Nextdoor app/site works in your area but folks in mine
are posting pictures of suspicious ringers all the time. Recently one
guy had a ring and run. He posted the photo and the parents saw it and
made the kid come over and apologize.