Originally Posted by
will5404
The names are visible to others on the same network, so if you name your computer "Spanky's Laptop" and go to a Starbucks you may get an odd look from a few geeks looking at which computers are on the network.
This may sound like a dumb question, but I got to Starbucks often and I don't see any other computers online. How do they see me? Is it when I am connected to the AT&T wifi?