Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dimitri Otis/Getty When your wireless router broadcasts its wireless network name, known formally as a Service Set Identifier ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your preferred network just got an upgrade. Since it’s a thing people will almost always see ...

Political statements are easy to see when they're on signs or buttons or in tweets. But then there are those that are hidden from view, until you log in to the right place. For example, when you look ...

When you set up your home Wi-Fi network, your router's name—technically called the SSID (Service Set Identifier)—might seem like an innocent detail. After all, it's just the name you see when looking ...

Alexandra Janelli is a Wi-Fi detective. She tracks the fleeting cultural and social thoughts of the city — as long as those fleeting cultural and social thoughts have been contained within the 30 or ...

Shakespeare once said that we shouldn't worry too much about names... And that a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. But he clearly didn't live in the digital age. Nowadays, Romeo and ...

So, you’ve just moved into your own place and got everything in order. You even got an account with an internet company, and now you can look through the best wifi names to really make it your own.

Creativity is key but your SSID matters more than you think When your wireless router broadcasts its wireless network name, known formally as a Service Set Identifier (SSID), it's like putting a ...