Agreed about the anonymity, for such as the BT range, where there likely to be several to help confuse.

I was given a router where the SSID had been changed to the full street address of the user!

Apart from odd tests, I have not used it.

In reply to a post by eckiedoo:

I was given a router where the SSID had been changed to the full street address of the user!

I've also heard of cases where people deliberately name their wifi networks to humiliate neighbours eg

Jane@no9_bonking_Les@no3 LOL

Almost incredible!

For a laugh, Google: funny ssid

Cheers!

I have just being changing my SSID because it had a space in it and my router lost whatever was after the space, each time it restarted!

I generally use police van #2 when i was younger ect

now its just like TPlink router or whatever.

My Andrews & Arnold supplied SSID contained a full stop character, which was fine on their supplied Billion router, but was not acceptable to my DrayTek Vigor 2920Vn. So apparently there is not a standard character list for SSIDs?

You experience with a space character is interesting.

Cheers!

I used to have a custom SSID and password.

The reasons I stopped are as follows:
1) The virginmedia superhubs (especially first model) would routinely factory reset, so you'd end up back to the factory SSID. So maintaining it was a headache.
2) When I got TalkTalk their router did not support characters such as ! as part of the WPA2 password. My custom password had a tonne of random characters, which meant it was a huge headache to use the same SSID with TT, as I'd have to go into each device and forget the old profile for the machine to associate with the same SSID and new password.

It was actually easier to just keep the default SSID and reconnect.

I do kind of have a custom SSID on BT, in that I hit the "separate bands" button for 2.4 and 5Ghz and it automatically put -5 on the end of the 5Ghz SSID...

In reply to a post by Michael_Chare:

I am surprised that they knew that the SSID had been changed. Did they find out through their remote router management?

Ooh, I've missed that question, sorry. Yes, EE support are notorious for connecting to your router via remote management whenever you call them, and not asking for a permission. Here's one example of a conversation I had:
Me: my BrightBox range is too large, is there a way to reduce transmit power?
Sup: I am having trouble connecting to your router, could you power it off and on?
Me: I don't want you to connect just now, just tell me how it's done.
Sup: It is not possible.
End.
(it's a bit of an off topic, sorry)

In reply to a post by Ancient_Mariner:

For a laugh, Google: funny ssid

Cheers!

Oh I liked the following ones:
FBI Surveillance Van #119871
It Burns When IP
IP_Freely
Honeypot <-- Loved that one
Mi-Fi, not your-fi

There are loads of them

Paul