Your smart home doesn't need a reset when you upgrade your router ...

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 ...

How creative are you with the name of your home network’s SSID? Invariably I tend to use ‘Tin Foil Hat Time’ or ‘Secret Nuclear Bunker’, but it can change depending on the mood I’m in. The short ...

My Wi-Fi network has more than one name—here's 4 reasons yours should, too ...

Wi-Fi contains one glaring flaw: it's vulnerable to hacking. The range of connectivity means people down the hall or across the street can access your network. Even if it's secured with a password, ...

What just happened? Just a few weeks after a similar issue was discovered, a security researcher has found that connecting an iPhone to Wi-Fi networks with a certain name can disable the device's ...

Wireless connections are becoming a popular way for computers to connect to networks and the Internet, as an employee can connect to either from anywhere within the range of the signal. Using wireless ...

A Wi-Fi signal is a broadcast-based communication. This is what makes it so easy to use — instead of dealing with the limitations of physically connecting with a network cable, you can simultaneously ...

Your Linksys wireless router broadcasts its service set identifier along with its wireless signal. This SSID name allows you to select the appropriate wireless network when multiple options exist. By ...

Earlier today, Ars IT editor Sean Gallagher was doing some scary things with wireless when he discovered someone probing for a Wi-Fi network with a name that appeared to be something un-parseable. I ...