Strange SSID in the air...

Hi,

I've been noticing that one of my neighbors occassionally spits out the SSID
"hpsetup", unencrypted on channel 1 (2.412Ghz), in adhoc mode.

I'm not going to mess with it, but was curious as to what it may be? A
printer? A previous adhoc connection on one of their computers (laptop)
that is trying to "re-connect" (that WinXP bug)?

The owners appear to be security minded since their main SSID has a unique
SSID and is WPA-PSK'd... Makes me wonder if they even know they are
radiating this unencrypted "hpsetup"....

Out of respect, I moved one of my SSID's off of channel 1 and onto channel
2. I'd move it further, but I'm already clobbering the air here on
channels 2, 6, 11, 52, and 152. (52 and 152 are 802.11a)





.

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