{"id":206,"date":"2009-01-13T01:11:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T06:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/wireless-network-names-don%e2%80%99t-tell-you-much\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T01:11:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T06:11:27","slug":"wireless-network-names-don%e2%80%99t-tell-you-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/wireless-network-names-don%e2%80%99t-tell-you-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Wireless Network Names Don\u2019t Tell You Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been my experience that the names of wireless networks do not tell you much about where they are.  <b>I do not use wireless network names as default names for anything<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Be aware that wifi network names are sometimes offensive! as I write this, one of the visible wireless networks is &#8220;DANKNASTY BALLASAUCE&#8221; &#8212; I kid you not.  But more importantly, they are mostly generic and useless: &#8220;linksys&#8221;, &#8220;netgear1&#8221;, &#8220;2WIRE985&#8221;, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Before you use a wireless network name to for something, make sure there isn&#8217;t something more appropriate you could use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been my experience that the names of wireless networks do not tell you much about where they are. I do not use wireless network names as default names for anything. Be aware that wifi network names are sometimes offensive! as I write this, one of the visible wireless networks is &#8220;DANKNASTY BALLASAUCE&#8221; &#8212; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}