XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2017-04-13 23:58, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2017-04-13 21:21, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   >>> Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>> On 2017-04-13 15:19, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Bear in mind that for android devices, you can set the IP address   
   >>>>> settings on a per-SSID basis.  Therefore, unless he connects to a   
   >>>>> network with the same SSID, but a different addressing scheme, the   
   >>>>> approach will cause him no grief.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And even in that case of same SSID by chance, it would have a different   
   >>>> password.   
   >>>   
   >>> yup, right pain when traveling to my uncle's the next state over -- AT&T   
   >>> re-used the (default) SSID as a friend or other relative back home.   
   >>>   
   >>> "the hell do you mean I have the wrong password for $whoever's_network?!   
   >>> I'm not even in the same state!"   
   >>   
   >> LOL!   
   >>   
   >> I thought that all vendor SSID would be different.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Yeah, seems AT&T re-uses the default SSIDs across various regions (e.g.   
   > US East / US Central / etc.).  Though, can't really blame them for doing   
   > it, the chances that two customers will cross regions AND know people   
   > who happen to have the same default SSID are obviously small enough that   
   > it's not a worry.   
      
   Well, not so small a chance, it happened to you :-P   
      
   If they have such a large customer list, they should use longer SSIDs. I   
   suppose it is a prefix then a decimal or hex number. They just need more   
   digits. :-)   
      
   How many digits do they use, perhaps 4? Because 4 is what I see here.   
   That's only 10000 customers, they surely have many millions. They are   
   bound to collide.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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