XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: dan@djph.net   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   Yeah, once over the course of $family and $friend each being AT&T   
   customers for decades (and having several router upgrades in between).   
      
   >   
   > 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. :-)   
      
   The default SSID was something like 2WIRE_1a2b3c4d5e6f (the hex at the   
   tail end changes -- definitely not the device MAC addresses, but some   
   psuedo-random number)   
      
      
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