Strange Network Name

[TJCC]

It might sound a dozy quesion but why not go and ask your neighbour. He might say go away or you might make a new friend. On the subject of network names I live on the 22nd floor of an apartment block in Singapore and I can see up to about 20 network names. One I know belongs to a friend who lives on the 15th floor of another building about 70 metres away.

 

[Gwaredd Thomas]

It might sound a dozy quesion but why not go and ask your neighbour. He might say go away or you might make a new friend. On the subject of network names I live on the 22nd floor of an apartment block in Singapore and I can see up to about 20 network names. One I know belongs to a friend who lives on the 15th floor of another building about 70 metres away.

That is a very good suggestion. However, two years ago, after he just moved in, I went over to say hello and he told me to "get the **** of his place he doesn't like anyone coming around." Well, sure, okay, I can do that. As an aside, this "gentleman" has greasy shoulder-length white hair and a beard that also greasy and long and wears wife-beater shirts usually with yesterday's lunch on them. [Actually he doesn't need any lunch since he could live off what's in front of him] Also, I was recently having a new roof put on our house and I found an arrow stuck in my roof which could only have been shot from his direction since there is no one else that lives close by. Well, there is one person who lives down the road on the other side about 2,000 yards away but he's 90 years old. So I confronted the guy. He lied...yup, okay, have a nice day. ;P So I don't believe he would want any NEW friends; in fact, I don't think he wants any friends.

 

[pm-r]

Gheese, with a guy like that for a neighbour, I think I'd be looking into some sort of virus protection amongst others — not for your Mac, but for yourself and family members.

 

[bobtomay]

This thread has to have set a record for the longest thread related to being able to see your neighbors wifi network.

 

[TJCC]

Ah – point taken. Not to be messed with then.

 

[wkponder]

I'd check with your neighbor 400 yards away. If it's just showing on the WiFi drop-down then there is a wireless network with that name that your computer is seeing. You can't delete it because it is there and your WiFi sees it. if you click on it the computer tries to connect and the lock means it is secured by a password. The password you are being asked for is the password for tat network. I hope I explained that sufficiently. I have attached a jpg of my WiFi drop-down. The network with the check mark is mine and the one I am connected to. All the others belong to neighbors, and the locks mean they are secure (password protected). Hope this helps.

 

[Nji8sjshg7s]

Hi, first disable all your network connections. Ethernet, wireless and bluetooth.
re-start do you see the phantom network? no
if you only use wireless enable it and before connecting see what networks your wireless card detects.
just in case someone penetrated your system change the SSID in your router and make it invisible and also change the admin password for your router.

 

[Userinkind747]

Although you are in a secluded area, you don't share your INET connection with anyone, and you don't move about with your MBP--'it stays at home' the fact that it is a portable-- that is to say a MacBook Pro-- it indicates to me that the MacBook has been somewhere where this junk yard 22 was a network that it connected to.

[[BTW: A few pertinent sleuth questions I think should find themselves into the-mix, so to speak; are:

1. Are you the "administrator?" and
2. Do you share your MBP with anyone, or have you let some one "use it right quick"? and last, but a BIG last:
3: Are there any minors in your home??

The answers to some of these questions might render this whole post moot...

So. As was referred to in one of the other posts from "Mac in win",:

Go into "SETTINGS", "NETWORK", "ADVANCED..." and if you STILL see it in your list of "preferred networks" at this point I would recommend you do this:

1. Select the network you want to get rid of: 'junkXYZ'
2. Click the "-" button below.

ADDITIONALLY: For all-around safety,

UNCHECK "remember networks this computer has joined"

CHECK (if you have administrator access-if you don't contact who ever set up your MBP) "require administrator authorization to:
*Create Computer to computer networks"
* change change networks"
*Turn Wi-Fi on or off"

Then click OK.

This should make you rest a little better. HOWEVER, since this is a connection you're not familiar with and you don't know when you (or your machine) came in contact with it, your machine may have been compromised on some level-- because at one point in time IT DID connect with junkyardwhatever...I'd investigate and reset all my network settings--AFTER COPYING ON PAPER WHAT THOSE SETTINGS ARE-ESPECIALLY YOUR internet connection.

Another answer could be that that the network of the person who last owned the machine, set up the machine, or it is a old network that was set up in your home when the wireless router was setup.


I hope this helps, And may fortune shine upon you.

•===============•===
Where to find answers to life's BIG QUESTIONS: JW.ORG

 

[Userinkind747]

Strange network name --Junkman? Junkyard?

Although you are in a secluded area, you don't share your INET connection with anyone, and you don't move about with your MBP--'it stays at home' the fact that it is a portable-- that is to say a MacBook Pro-- it indicates to me that the MacBook has been somewhere where this junk yard 22 was a network that it connected to.

[[BTW: A few pertinent sleuth questions I think should find themselves into the-mix, so to speak; are:

1. Are you the "administrator?" and
2. Do you share your MBP with anyone, or have you let some one "use it right quick"? and last, but a BIG last:
3: Are there any minors in your home??

The answers to some of these questions might render this whole post moot...

So. As was referred to in one of the other posts from "Mac in win",:

Go into "SETTINGS", "NETWORK", "ADVANCED..." and if you STILL see it in your list of "preferred networks" at this point I would recommend you do this:

1. Select the network you want to get rid of: 'junkXYZ'
2. Click the "-" button below.

ADDITIONALLY: For all-around safety,

UNCHECK "remember networks this computer has joined"

CHECK (if you have administrator access-if you don't contact who ever set up your MBP) "require administrator authorization to:
*Create Computer to computer networks"
* change change networks"
*Turn Wi-Fi on or off"

Then click OK.

This should make you rest a little better. HOWEVER, since this is a connection you're not familiar with and you don't know when you (or your machine) came in contact with it, your machine may have been compromised on some level-- because at one point in time IT DID connect with junkyardwhatever...I'd investigate and reset all my network settings--AFTER COPYING ON PAPER WHAT THOSE SETTINGS ARE-ESPECIALLY YOUR internet connection.

Another answer could be that that the network of the person who last owned the machine, set up the machine, or it is a old network that was set up in your home when the wireless router was setup.


I hope this helps, And may fortune shine upon you.

•===============•===
Where to find answers to life's BIG QUESTIONS: JW.ORG[/QUOTE]

 

[pm-r]

This thread has to have set a record for the longest thread related to being able to see your neighbors wifi network.

AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! HELP!!!!

It just won't die, and goes on and on and on.

Can a Moderator kill it please, as no useful info is actually being added.

 

[wendalls53]

sometimes I have only my wirless network other times I can have upto 7 or 8 with padlocks they are are just other peoples network you are seeing, as above have a good password as they will be able to see yours as well, also mobile networks will show up as well some tiimes nothing to panic about. I would not worry about it.