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Internet Speed sudden drops (need to reboot) - "FBI" name in WIFI names - Allowed?

Question 1: Why do messages asking for help and complaining about Verizon slow speed do not allow a "REPLY" . Verizon filters them? I see the messages but thee is no Reply button.

Question 2: in the last two months my internet speed has been dropping regularly (suddenly, Pings go from 100 msec to 999 msec) and requires a reboot of my Box. This is in the Edison (NJ) area. Anybody else in Edison seeing this?

Question 3: I didn't notice any new neighbor moving in but in the last few weeks there is a new WIFI that shows-up in my area called "FBI_investig_1". Anybody knows if people are allowed to use such FBI name for their WIFI, just curious... Or is this genuine when FBI has a local investigation? (not very undercover...)

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Telcoguru

To answer your questions, once the ticket has been referred to a Verizon agent you can't reply to the meassage. As to why your pings times are bad it could be almost anything. You will need a Verizon agent to determine that. Lastly someone just changed their SSID to be a wiseguy. The FBI is not going to tell you that there is an investigation going on in your area.

smith6612

The FBI network name is fun to set up every now and again. I set up an unsecured network from time to time at home with the name "FBI Response Unit#5" and set up an easter egg on the network for those being adventurous. Sometimes it's a machine running a Squid proxy designed to mess with web pages (like replace all images with cat pictures, insert all sorts of code to the page to mess up the layout, etc). Or, I'll leave the network with no Internet connection but I'll have something like a Nethack server running on Telnet.

Nothing wrong with it at all. If the FBI wanted to tap into information, they could likely do that without needing their own network set up.

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