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Mine is an android and this is available in settings and I think iPhone would have same.

[Dean Hoffman]

It dos but maybe Bud is looking for something more detailed.

[Ed P]

I would hope not. I don't want someone walking down the street to know all about my connections. Do you want passwords listed too?

[bud--]

Is there a good iPhone app that lists available WiFi signals, owner, channel and strength. Mostly looking for channels used by house WiFi.

[micky]

There is an active iphone newsgroup. I don't know its name. If you go to the android newsgroup, comp.mobile.android**, and ask, they may throw rocks at you but someone will tell you. **It does not have a similar name.

But tell me, what do you mean by owner, house WiFi?

[hubops]

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My router still has the original meaningless default identifier. Many of my neighbours have their surname in their wifi identifier. John T.

[Jim Joyce]

Owner isn't going to be directly available, (but can frequently be inferred via mapping), but SSID, (if being broadcast, which is generally true), channel, and strength are easily viewed and can be mapped or logged or whatever you want to do. Passwords won't be directly available but in many cases they can be revealed. On a related note, the encryption type is viewable, which provides a huge hint on how easy it would be to reveal passwords.

On Android, I use WiFi Analyzer, but there are tons of such apps. I'm quite sure that the iPhone ecosystem has the same.

[Retirednoguilt]

Don't expect to learn the owner by using an app from Apple's app store unless the owner is foolish enough to use personal identity in their SSID. Learning owner ID requires more sophisticated knowledge and equipment. Law enforcement often needs a court warrant to learn that information from the communication company providing the service for a specific signal.

[micky]

Right! I've noticed that. I think my network is called IntenetHeaven.

One mistake I made was not changing the password when I first got it, to something easier, not because of security but because it is is so hard to keep entering it everywhere, especially when there is only a virtual wierdo keyboard.

It's 18 characters, and no one is trying to hack me. No one in my n'hood knows how to hack me. And at first there was only the laptop, but then came the printer, the tv, the phone, the next phone, Alexa, the replacement laptop, last week the wifi radio, and I think I've left things out. If I change it now, I have to go back and change them all.

[Ed P]

Spectrum often uses easy to remember and spell words followed by three numbers. At work it was rockyiris999, another was largedirt999

Certainly makes it simple if you have a guest and want to allow them on your WiFi.

[Scott Lurndal]

Unless you supress SSID advertising, they already do.

[Wade Garrett]

I change my SSID periodically. For the last couple of years,it's been labeled VirusTestnet.

No problems with intrusions...

[T]

Hi Bud,

Years ago I got called to an apartment complex to set up WiFi on a customer's machine. There were MILLIONS of WiFi access points on every channel from all other apartments. So I had to use a "wifi scanner" to find which channels where to farthest away (least signal strength) to set up the customers access point on. It was an interesting trouble call!

This will help you:

I do not remember which one I used.

-T

[T]

I forgot to mention, there is adjacent channel bleed. So you want to pick a channel with the least signal on either side of it.

[rbowman]

Welcome to wardriving. It's hard to tell the white hats from the black hats in the pentesting world.

[rbowman]

Throw in some special characters for variety.

L@rgedirt999!

[rbowman]

Life used to be so much simpler. I was at my brother's house about 15 years and wanted to show him a mapping application that didn't require connectivity. I fired up and realized I was connected. He had a cable modem but when I asked if he had a wireless router and got "A what?" I realized some kind neighbor was providing my service.

[T]

I had a trouble call like that years ago. Only one computer could be on the internet.

Turned out his router was down and the one computer that worked was connected to his neighbor's unsecured WiFi.

I had a hard time convincing him ("But Mine work!?!?!"), but I finally did.

[T]

Ed,

You are jumping to some wild conclusions.

-T

[micky]

Very intersting.

Wifi phones! interesting.