Your Wi-Fi name leaks more about you than your IP address ever could.

An service set identifier, or network name, is a unique, alphanumeric ID attached to a wireless local area network. The first time you set up your NETGEAR router, the device will assign to the network ...

The SSID, or Service Set Identifier, of a wireless network is the public name that identifies the network for other devices. You can run two routers with the same SSID to increase the range of your Wi ...

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 ...

Macs, iPhones, iPads, and other Apple hardware roam best across Wi-Fi networks that are made up of multiple wireless routers when the routers all share the same network name, known obscurely as a ...