Who drives past my house the most (cars with wifi hotspots)
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OVERKILL
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I don't get it? People driving by you house? Unless you need to make a quick escape because you are wanted by the FBI, CIA or Mafia why would you care?
you are in the computer sub-forum. Its a feature of my computer network that shows all networks that came in range of the Access Points.
Which in this case happens to be all the cars driving in front of my house.. and maybe an occasional person walking on the sidewalk with their phone's wifi hotspot turned on.
there are an additional 4505 entries of hotspots going past.
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Another reason to have my wifi name so inappropriate not even a hacker would want to click it LOL.
This is great btw. Fun data.
This is great btw. Fun data.
WiFi hot spot in my car?
Why?
Why?
OVERKILL
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It's surprisingly common on new vehicles, both of ours have it, but it's disabled because I won't pay for the subscription, lol.
yeah mine too.
So you don't use your mobile phone's data or for device's that don't have data access. Money-wise one has to look at what their mobile provider charges for personal hotspot vs what the vehicle's plan charges.
The rental we had to go to FL included a data hotspot that we used.
OVERKILL
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My contribution, lol:
I lived next door to the neighborhood busybody some years ago, and if she had this technology available to her at that time she would have been ecstatic to say the least. At that time she kept detailed notes on all activities she observed going on.
JHZR2
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So… what’s the hardware and sw that gets you these data?
Not that I need it. It’s just interesting to me. I don’t quite get why one network would be looking for other SSIDs…. Maybe to change channels to less congested ones?
Not that I need it. It’s just interesting to me. I don’t quite get why one network would be looking for other SSIDs…. Maybe to change channels to less congested ones?
Your standard home router has this ability but it's likely not available with the stock software. I know dd-wrt has it which can replace the stock software on a wide variety of routers. The tool or functionality can go by different names but one might be "network analyzer". It scans the airwaves in the area that it can reach and in the case of @Rand, it's turned on 24/7 and continually logging.
Unlimited data on our phones, so probably not something we need...........plus the security concerns
No more security concern than your home's WiFi, if it had broad enough coverage.
Indeed. A concern. No need to roll around with it. Say you had three cars and home.........now you have 4 security concerns is all I'm saying. PLUS I'm largely ignorant, but automotive rolling router.........how to upgrade for next gen wi-fi router? (Home is pretty easy)
