Re: [NTLK] wifi question

SSID is a acronym meaning Service Set Identifier,

a SSID is the name of the wireless signal of a wifi
network. say if you have a belking wireless router its
default SSID would be like belkin , belkin54g or so on
depending on the model. every wifi has a SSID just
depending on the model ( if its using the default
SSID) or diffrent if the owner ( also known as a
admin) changes it. The SSID is a sequence of up to 32
letters or numbers usually they are only 5-10
characters long.

one thing i wish the driver included was a power meter
to show you how strong the signal is, and a program
you could run to see the available wifi signals. here
there are allot of hotspots down town and i dont know
any of them which makes it to where i cant connect
downtown.

i wanted real badly to try and code one , but that is
imposable cause i dont know how to program and then on
top of that i know nothing how a SSID scanner works

--- Woody Smith <woodysmith@comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm sure that there is a long answer that actually
> explains what the
> letters stand for, but it is essentially the name of
> your wireless
> router. It would also be the name that is given to
> any other router
> you want to connect to.
> My Newton only sees what I tell it to, but my
> laptop often
> identifies 5 or 6 wifi networks in my neighborhood.
>
> Woody
>
>
> On Sep 20, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Oliver Leaman wrote:
>
> > I have finally got a wifi card, thanks Owen, and
> it connects very
> > smoothly to Hiroshi's driver on my eMate. Then it
> asks me for
> > information which I do not understand, and reading
> the information
> > in the archives does not help me, since I am so
> computer-
> > illiterate. What is SSID?
> >
> > Oliver
>
>
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Received on Thu Sep 20 21:21:12 2007