Really? So, my secure, hidden network is now logged by EasyWifi and shows up on their maps as a EasyWiFi hotspot and their service is designed to connect their users to their hotspots... your saying I'm ignorant to be concerned that any of their millions of users who happen to be near my home couldn't log in through my router?
I happen to live in a fairly tourist-y area, within WiFi distance of off beach parking, rental homes and the beach (where I see people all time with tablets, latptops and smartphones). And being that Florida is one of Metro's biggest markets, I'm sure that many Metro customers, with EasyWiFi enabled phones have been well within range of my router.
EasyWiFi can say whatever they want about how they log and store their info. The fact that i haven't had their app active on a phone with my router credentials in 4-5 months, and it still shows on their maps... for anyone to see... is 100% BS on their behalf. So, I don't trust the reliability of their security measures.
How are facts ignorant?
Fact: I can go to EasyWiFi's site and see an EasyWiFi hotspot indicator right on top of my house. Which means anyone could go to their site and do the same.... kinda defeats the purpose of hiding your SSID if people can easily find that a network exists there... don't you think? Forget their users for a minute... a hacker doesn't need credentials, they just need to know the router is there. While, sure a hacker could find it anyway if they wanted to, this just makes it easier for them. Would you want your secure, hidden network pointed out? No, that's why you hide it.
Fact I haven't had EasyWiFi on a phone for 4-5 months.
Fact EasyWiFi stores credentials... if they didn't why would you need them? You don't need credentials for open hotspots.
I'm not sure what you do ChazzMatt, and usually I agree with what you say. But, I've got to disagree with you... from what I can see this is true, and I'm not ignorant.
zud
Ignorance is lack of knowledge. The "facts" you are reporting are not the complete truth -- because you have not investigated to see how the system works.
Easy Wi-Fi does NOT store passwords for secure networks. The credentials they have are for open networks or networks with whom they have agreements. Sure, most of the open networks you could manually join, but Easy Wifi can do it automatically.
Ignorant people are spreading these rumors about Easy WiFi for some reason. Please stop.
Easy Wi-Fi does NOT store passwords for secured networks.
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The "hotspot" you see at your house is not your network. NO, YOUR wi-fi router is not listed in the Metro Easy Wi-Fi network -- unless you are stupid enough to have a completely open network.
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Don't believe me or Dreamscape (the company who created Easy Wi-fi?)
Here's how you can really check. Not your way, your way is crap.
If you go to the Easy WiFi network on your PC -- and you are not registered and logged in as an account holder -- all you will see is a "general view" of reported Easy Wi-Fi hotspots, some of which may be near your house. It may LOOK like it's at your house, but it's through Google Maps APIs, reported by GPS wi-fi data, which is only accurate within
a few hundred feet. There is a better way to check which I will tell you about in a minute...
For instance, at MY house,
the PC map shows TWO Easy Wi-Fi hotspots. TWO! Right at my house!
Both are inaccurate. Because with your computer, you are not really "logged in" to the system. It just shows alleged hotspots. But that view on the computer does NOT show the SSIDs (network names) associated with the hotspots... Not being logged in, you do not have the right to see details about those networks.
The REAL way to check is to use your MetroPCS Android, and with the Easy Wi-Fi app, use the map on that app to go to your house. (NOT the phone's browser,
the map in your Easy Wi-Fi app.) Since you are automatically "logged in" with MetroPCS supplied credentials
you will then see the SSIDs (network names) of any hotspots at that location.
In this detailed view, I can see that
neither of the two reported hotspots at my house are my secured network. NOT my router. They are open hotspots of neighbors. I can tell by the network names, as I can also see those names on my wife's laptop in the regular Windows wi-fi nearby networks view (part of Windows). Yet, both are "pinned" to MY house. Why? Faulty GPS reporting.
I even contacted Easy Wi-Fi to make sure. John Gordon, one of their engineers was very helpful. He searched their database for my SSID (it's very unique) and said it did not appear anywhere. When I reported my concern about the PC map view, he double checked to make sure there was not a bug in their system that was perhaps SHOWING a secure network as being an Easy Wi-Fi hotspot -- even though no one could access it.
< Read that again. It would be a "false" hotspot listing, because again Easy WiFi does NOT store secured network passwords. But after thoroughly investigating, even that was NOT the case (no bug, no false report). Instead it's simple faulty GPS reporting. Some Easy Wi-Fi app reported a couple of open networks as they were driving by my house, apparently. Again, wi-fi gps reporting is not totally accurate. So, while the blue dots show up at my address, using the Easy Wi-Fi app I could clearly see their SSIDs, and they are NOT mine.
He even sent me a screen shot of his iPhone Easy Wi-Fi map view of my house, so that I could see what people using other phones would see. It was identical to what my LG Esteem Easy Wi-fi was seeing -- which is more detailed than the "general" website map view.
The engineer John Gordon even said some open networks may show up that were there in the past -- there's one two streets over from me that has not been active since August, and will soon drop off the website map.
But, using the Easy Wi-Fi app map, if you find your SSID
is listed, then your wi-fi router is not secure and it's not Easy Wi-Fi's fault. It's yours.
Easy Wi-Fi does NOT store passwords for secured networks.
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This web page is good too. It's Metro's Easy Wifi page:
MetroPCS WiFi Locator
