On 05/17/2011 12:36 PM, Frank Murphy wrote: > > Also if it's your home wLan, hide it, don't broadcast the ssid. > So those in your neighbourhood won't even know you have a wireless. >
As many have pointed out - you should not disable SSID broadcast. Disabling it offers zero security benefit and makes wifi work less well than it was designed. Especially when there are multiple AP's on the same SSID. In fact hidden SSID may even worsen security. It also violates 802.11 - and I believe later versions states that a computer may refuse to connect to any AP which does not broadcast it's SSID in accordance with the standard ... someone can confirm that I'm sure. For some reason this hidden SSID theory leaked from some bad well a long time ago and has managed to survive ... who knows why. If you do it and find things (phones perhaps) refuse to connect to your AP - dont be surprised. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
