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SSID What is that ? SSID What is that ?

SSID is an abbreviation for Service Set Identifier

Your Wireless Router sends out a beacon which connects to your Laptop and all your wireless equipment this beacon is virtually an invitation to those pieces of equipment to communicate with it. However, if a piece of equipment does not know the network’s SSID it will not be able to use this.

This should be of comfort to many who are afraid their system can be used by others. There are still these objectionable people called Hackers who spend considerable time, effort and money in purchasing software to help them into abusing other people and they could and do discover your SSID.

Now it is recommended that you change the settings of your SSID, but this has the disadvantage of slowing down your connection which is not a desired option. You should change your login and password from the one that came with the equipment to a more obtuse one. You also can consider encryption this prohibits others for they need the password and preferably use the WPA2 rather than the older WEP encryption.

It is a sad world we live in when we have to go to such lengths to protect ourselves from the nasty people of this world.  