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- Home: Airtel / Jio / BSNL
Office: NKN / BSNL ,past used VSNL, GlobeTel, Sify,Reliance,Tulip, RailTel
I found Airtel is injecting an unknown SSID at least in mine and in my neighborhood using a custom firmware in AOT-4221SR modem. I complaint about it to local support but they do not understand it or bother to understand it. Here is the details:
When they install a router they provide you control of a pair of SSID (and guest SSID), you can change the SSID name and password for 2.4 GHz and 5GHz. Beside these two if you want you can create more SSIDs by directly login in to their provided modem. BUT I disabled both the SSID and deleted extra SSIDs (Airtel_Onetouch_*) in modem. But the Hidden SSID from my modem is still visible. It sometimes shows the traffic also.
If any one in the forum has same kind of modem I request you to download Wifi Analyser in mobile or NetSpot in Desktop and check if you modem is also having a Hidden SSID . Irony is that its YOUR modem, your airtel connection BUT Hidden SSID configured by AIRTEL and you have no knowledge or control over it.
The pattern of MACID of hidden SSID is consistent with you 5GHz band MAC ID here is the way it looks like:
if your 5G SSID is 8C:A3:99:0E:8E:0A then Hidden SSID MAC is 8E:A3:99:3E:8E:0A
if your 5G SSID is 8C:A3:99:07:33:AA then Hidden SSID MAC is 8E:A3:99:37:33:AA
i.e. the known broadcasted SSID is added with 02:00:00:30:00:00 to generate MAC for Hidden SSID.
FOR ME THIS IS A SECURITY ISSUE AND UNETHICAL PRACTICE BY AIRTEL. I do not know the SSID or password of the hidden WiFi from my modem it can be digested so easily.
If you have the router PLEASE CHECK and CONFIRM if this practice is followed in other places also or JHARKHAND AIRTEL is the only one doing this.
Will it go to deaf ear of AIRTEL Support ?
When they install a router they provide you control of a pair of SSID (and guest SSID), you can change the SSID name and password for 2.4 GHz and 5GHz. Beside these two if you want you can create more SSIDs by directly login in to their provided modem. BUT I disabled both the SSID and deleted extra SSIDs (Airtel_Onetouch_*) in modem. But the Hidden SSID from my modem is still visible. It sometimes shows the traffic also.
If any one in the forum has same kind of modem I request you to download Wifi Analyser in mobile or NetSpot in Desktop and check if you modem is also having a Hidden SSID . Irony is that its YOUR modem, your airtel connection BUT Hidden SSID configured by AIRTEL and you have no knowledge or control over it.
The pattern of MACID of hidden SSID is consistent with you 5GHz band MAC ID here is the way it looks like:
if your 5G SSID is 8C:A3:99:0E:8E:0A then Hidden SSID MAC is 8E:A3:99:3E:8E:0A
if your 5G SSID is 8C:A3:99:07:33:AA then Hidden SSID MAC is 8E:A3:99:37:33:AA
i.e. the known broadcasted SSID is added with 02:00:00:30:00:00 to generate MAC for Hidden SSID.
FOR ME THIS IS A SECURITY ISSUE AND UNETHICAL PRACTICE BY AIRTEL. I do not know the SSID or password of the hidden WiFi from my modem it can be digested so easily.
If you have the router PLEASE CHECK and CONFIRM if this practice is followed in other places also or JHARKHAND AIRTEL is the only one doing this.
Will it go to deaf ear of AIRTEL Support ?