CHANGE YOUR WIRELESS ROUTER NAME!

[Zynthesis]

A very effective way to Promote Ron Paul is a simple change of your wireless routers name. It's free for you and it promotes throughout your neighborhood. Simply type in http://192.168.1.1 into your web browser. Go to wireless settings and change Name (SSID): to something like Like "Vote Ron Paul 2012" Now everyone that's in range will see this when trying to connect to a wireless network either with their computer or other device. If you own a business, this is a great way to get tons of people to see it as well. Ask your local coffee shop owner or other businesses if they are supporting Ron Paul and if so, let them in on Changing their free Wireless Routers name.

Hope you like this idea.

Scott!

Ps: if you've never accessed your wireless router before: your user name and password is most likely - admin as the username, and password is the password. This is the manufactures default user/password.

 

[agorist ninja]

That's actually a phenomenal idea.

 

[InTradePro]

Good idea!

 

[RDM]

bump

 

[isrow]

I did this a couple months ago, it's great to see it every time I'm on.

 

[Stefan]

Haha, you're a genius!

 

[walt]

Great!!! Especially if you are in an apartment complex!!!

 

[mortepa]

I went and scrounged up all my old routers a few weeks ago, and was able to find three old ones! I renamed their wireless network, and planted one at work, one at a friend's house, and one in the ceiling in a gas station/lounge. haha

They all say "R O N .. P A U L .. 2 0 1 2 . ! ! !". By spreading out the characters, the name really stands out. This was a fun little project for me.

 

[Justinfrom1776]

I did this a while back.. I have 2 routers.

Router 1: www.ronpaul2012.com

Router 2: THE RON PAUL TRUTH

One of my neighbors asked me about it and we go to talking, he says he's going to look into Paul.. I told him, "You know where to go"
He's a retired cop and a typical neocon type, so I may need to touch base with him.

 

[teacherone]

while you're at it add "nomap" to the end of the name so google doesn't sniff all your data...

Tue Nov 15 2011 12:25 PM ​

A year and a half after Google admitted that it had inadvertently collected unsuspecting people's personal information sent over the Internet via their wireless routers, the company has implemented a way for people to opt-out of having their routers tracked in the first place.

Google records and stores locations of Wi-Fi networks on its servers for two reasons: to provide a location services like Google Maps for Android smartphone users if GPS is unavailable and to more quickly locate a GPS signal when one is around.

The locations of the wireless networks are typically crowd-sourced by Android phones themselves. But another way Google collects locations of Wi-Fi routers is to drive its Street View cars around neighborhoods. In addition to the cameras attached to their roofs that film 360-degree images for Google Maps, the cars also have antennas that discover local Wi-Fi networks.

The company faced an uproar in the spring of 2010 when European regulators found that Google's cars had been mistakenly downloading so-called "payload data" (snippets of information sent over the Internet via router) from Internet users who were logged onto unprotected wireless networks in range of its cars. That data could include e-mails, instant messages, usernames and passwords.

As a result of its investigation, European data protection authorities in September asked Google to provide people with a way to opt out of having their routers tracked. Late Monday, the company introduced a method to do that.

By changing your wireless network's name, or SSID, so that it ends with "--nomap," Google said it will no longer add that network's location to its servers. So, for instance, if you named your Wi-Fi network "Network," changing it to "Network--nomap" would mean that Google would no longer track your router.

 

[Bodhi]

Super idea, does not cost a thing and takes little time to do. Everyone needs to do this!

 

[IterTemporis]

I did it.

 

[erkme73]

GREAT IDEA!!

Most newer routers (or those running third-party firmware) will allow 'virtual' or 'guest' hotspots. I have so many wireless devices (i.e. printers, mobile device, etc) that would result in nothing short of a two-day headache after making changing my primary SSID, that I simply created additional virtual SSIDs... Best of both worlds.

 

[MJU1983]

Great minds MUST think alike!

Mine has been Google Ron Paul for a while now...

 

[flybeech]

Brilliant! Done and thread forwarded to all my contacts.

 

[pauliticalfan]

Great idea.

 

[freedoms-light]

Most wireless routers run on 12v dc. I'm making a DC cable for one of my old ones and setting it up in my car.
Too bad it doesn't allow multiple SSIDs. Take the message wherever I drive.

 

[IterTemporis]

Oh, another idea is if you use blue tooth on your cellphone.

 

[rp08orbust]

Can anyone recommend some good range-extending antennas?

If you want to get more elaborate, I think there are ways to set up landing pages full of Ron Paul links for people who connect to your network.

 

[ChrisDixon]

+rep! This is a GREAT idea!