What is SSID: How to Find and Manage Your Wi-Fi Network Name
When you see a list of Wi-Fi networks on your device, most of them have common names related to particular router firmware. However, you may also bump into quite unusual ones, such as Mom Use This One, Martin Router King, No Free Wi-Fi Network for You, and so on. Either creative or common, these are SSIDs of the available networks. Finding and changing your personal SSID is fairly easy. You can even hide it from other users’ eyes. But will it impact the security of your home network? Spoiler: not really. Keep reading this article to get the asnwer to the question What is SSID?, how to find it on your device, and whether changing or hiding it will protect your network.