I've found similar networks when inspecting other brands of router. It's not an uncommon sight these days with vendors and their 50 different proprietary mesh n

I've found similar networks when inspecting other brands of router. It's not an uncommon sight these days with vendors and their 50 different proprietary mesh negotiation protocols. While I did wonder how they generated the SSID (In this case it was 128-bit hash, underscore then the vendor name), I didn't really look too hard into it as my goal was wiping out the vendor's firmware anyway. I did spot some features like configuration sync that made my "this'll be written properly..." senses go off though. I do note that there is a Wifi Alliance spec for this kind of thing now though. It's called Wi-Fi EasyMesh. I can't imagine anyone apart from actual SoC vendors taking the effort to implement it though, as it's a 163 page specification, available only on request or by alliance members. (Well the vast majority of chipset manufacturers are members, and the specifications have leaked anyway) Edit: Scratch that, there were actually 3 different hidden SSIDs. The one mentioned above was a hidden IoT SSID, the other two were VendorMesh_hash and VendorMesh_WPS. :S