While checking my wireless connection I see

[katmondoo]

FBI Surveillance Van on the list of connections. I have been checking daily since. By 1:00Pm it is usually gone. If they check me they must be totally bored with the results. This Alachua County Florida. The only county in Northern Florida that went for Obama.

[idwiyo]

1. Someone is taking a piss. You can rename yours as "NSA spybot 666" if you like.

[Orrex]

2. Somebody is screwing with you

Someone named their wireless router "FBI Surveillance Van" to freak people out.

Your porn is safe.

[IDemo]

3. I think this is a fairly common joke among wireless users

You likely have a neighbor with a sense of humor, but they need to get with the times - it's NSA Surveillance now, not FBI.

[SidDithers]

4. Quick!! Delete everything on your hard drive!...

Nothing to worry about. Some clever person has named their router "FBI Surveillance Van", instead of "Smith Home" or "Jones Office" or whatever.

The real FBI Surveillance Van will have some innocuous name like "linksys".

Sid

[IDemo]

7. Best put it down the disposal, just to be safe

[sufrommich]

5. Probably the most popular name used by people.It's a joke.

You aren't being watched.

[RC]

12. That is what They want you to think...

Bruahahahahahahahah!!!1!!

[HappyMe]

6. lol!

Somebody's just poking you with a stick.

[darkangel218]

8. Oopsie! thats my router!!

[darkangel218]

9. edited because my post posted twice

Again.

What the hell

[Bay Boy]

10. A post like this really makes you wonder...

...how many people out there see something like that and actually freak out.

[RC]

11. Whoever is doing that might be a DU member?

Take your laptop out for a walk and see if you can find them. A map with bar strength will help in tracking them down.
Naming their wireless some similar seem to be a running joke with some people around here.
I have a couple of wireless routers laying around and have been thinking of doing that, but have been too lazy to dig them out.

Only instead of FBI, I'd use something like 'NSA Patrol13' or 'NSA Van8', or even 'NSA Neighborhood Watch4'. No need to have them hooked to a computer after renaming them.

[Marrah_G]

13. Most likely a teenage boy

My son and his friends like to name their connections all sorts of weird things.

[sammytko]

14. Yeah, my neighbor is always doing that

Some are freaky!

[MineralMan]

15. Clever name for a wireless network.

Sort of. My router's open guest account is named "Free Wireless for All." It doesn't get used a lot, but it's there. I can tell when someone's using it, though. Usually, if I look out the window, there's some real estate agent on a laptop parked in front of my house.

Funny.

BTW, that guest wireless account has no access whatever to anything but the cable network. It's completely blocked, otherwise.