On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 23:08 +0100, Jan Brosius wrote: > I also had the impression that I got connected more quickly if I let > my router broadcast its SSID. If you don't broadcast your SSID, it's harder to work out which access point your hardware should be connecting to, and software doesn't have an ID to reference which bits of information go together (e.g. this access point with that password, and so on). If you do broadcast your SSID, you can easily find your access point on a list, and connect to your own access point rather than your neighbours. Your neighbours can easily tell which is theirs instead of yours, and use the right one. Not broadcasting your SSID does *NOT* give you any security, in any way whatsoever, it's a fallacy. Hackers and nuisances can still mess with you when you're not broadcasting it. All that does is give you networking problems to work around. Broadcast your SSID. Set it as something that you can easily see as being your access point. Follow whatever rules there are for using the right characters (if you're not supposed to use blank spaces, underlines, or something else, then don't use them). If you can't find rules pointing them out, then the simplest thing to do would be just use ASCII letters and numbers. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.14-64.fc7 i686 i386 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
