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Article #182Re: NEWS: Google accused of criminal intent over StreetView data
From: Bob
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:20
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 10:20
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On 12/06/2010 07:31, danny burstein wrote: > In<4c1317d5$0$1606$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> qm@sonic.net (Brad Allen) writes: > >> "> 1. MAC addresses (Bob Metcalfe et al& Std Bodies) are used, not SSIDs. >> " As I pointed out the router is being changed and hence the MAC address >> " is changed. > >> Sorry; the almost irrelevant SSID mention threw me off and I didn't do >> detailed reading. Your principle is correct: the MAC address >> therefore changes. > > Are the numbers of people using ISP provided WiFi routers > (for which they probably pay $10 or so/month extra) > that high? And doubly so, is there that huge a turnover > where you (the earlier poster) are? > > I'm much more familiar with areas where the WiFi routers > tend to be about 90 percent third party and owned by > the consumer (i.e. Linksys, D-Link, etc.). And the > churn is less than 5 percent/year... > > > > The large ISP's in the UK provide routers each of which comes with encryption enabled and a unique SSID, the SSID's can be of the type BT-abc, SKY-xyz etc. Most users do not change their SSID so it is easy to see when a router has changed. With the advent of 11n I am starting to see that a lot of the routers are being replaced and as the ISP packages change and the increase in availablity of higher speed broadband there is quite a bit of movement between ISP's. I do have some neighbours who use their own routers but in some cases the turnover there is quite high as their needs change. My nearest neighbour has had 8 router/AP's in the last 3 years as his experiments to improve his access around his house, garden and garage were just not quite what he had hoped.
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