- Netgear WG602v2 SSID broadcast
- Posted by bof on January 21st, 2004
I have a Netgear WG602v2 WAP running firmware version 2.0rc5.
I've disabled SSID broadcast through its config. screen, yet the SSID is
still visible to my PC using a WG 511.
Anyone know how to turn off SSID broadcast on this WAP?
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- Posted by Brian McIlwrath on January 21st, 2004
bof <nothingread@hotmail.com> wrote:
: I've disabled SSID broadcast through its config. screen, yet the SSID is
: still visible to my PC using a WG 511.
Are you sure you have understood things correctly? Disabling SSID
broadcast *SHOULD* stop the base station randomly broadcasting it. HOWEVER
SSID is needed to establish a connection and (on Windows XP at least) the
laptop (or whatever) will itself cycle through SSIDs on its "known" list
and the base station will respond to the correct one.
- Posted by bof on January 21st, 2004
In message <bulpcn$l3s@newton.cc.rl.ac.uk>, Brian McIlwrath
<bkm@bkmpc.bnsc.rl.ac.uk> writes
Thanks for the suggestion. I deleted the 'known' SSID from the laptop so
it wouldn't know what to look for and it could still see the WAP's SSID
on the stations list, but couldn't connect, I guess the laptop could
have remembered what it was previously set to even though I couldn't see
it in the config screens, I'll check later by configing the WAP with a
random name unknown to the laptop card.
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