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5 years ago

Recently I've been seeing a couple of WiFi networks showing up on my iPhone. They are Bond Config KSMWSCE79799 and Bond Config KSMWSCE80181. Also my WiFi-enabled printer shows up! Any idea of what these BOND networks are? I live in the country and my nearest neighbor is about 1000 feet away. However, about two years an electrical contracting business set up shop about 2000 feet away and, about the same distance, there is an electrical power substation.

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luis_pr
5 years ago
"Smart home" equipment in the house perhaps?
mtvhike
Original Author
5 years ago
I don't think I have any. Another spurious WiFi connection was traced to my car! I hadn't realized cars had WiFi, but when I was having it serviced, the service person said that there's an app for my phone which allows me to do many things remotely (which I have no interest in doing!).

As I was typing this, I remembered that the inverters for my newly installed solar panels have a WiFi connection. I don't know why, because they are hard-wired into my router with Ethernet.
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luis_pr
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
I am not surprised that cars now have that. Mine is a still good 2009 model but the ones I have rented recently are loaded with stuff that needs regular updates because the programs were so crappily made/designed and lack decent security to prevent hacking.
Elmer J Fudd
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
I'm not sure why it matters if your phone and other devices are connecting to the correct Wifi signal.

There are many smartphone apps (and similar things on PCs) you can use to see what signals there are where you are. I use Wifi Analyzer on my Android phone. The principal benefit of doing so is to see what channels my neighbors are using and to make sure my Wifi signal is in a less crowded space. Believe it or not, we all seem to be playing a game of musical chairs. I'll change my setting, then someone else joins me and where I am gets crowded, then I move mine, and on and on. I check it every few months.

FYI, on the 2.4 GHz band, the channel selections range from 1 to 11 but signals are several channels wide. Best to stick to 1 or 6/7 or 11. On the 5 GHz band, it's single numbers like 44, 45, 46, etc.

One of my houses is not rural but in a neighborhood of larger lots and it
doesn't matter much. The other has more density and it seems to matter
more there but routers and devices are pretty good at filtering out the
noise from on-air traffic of others.

If your setting is crowded with others, switch to another. Otherwise, I think you can ignore what you see.
mtvhike thanked Elmer J Fudd

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