i've just created an invisible SSID on my Linksys router. how do i set up my mac to automatically connect to it though? i don't want to have to enter the name and pw each time i want to connect.
Just a bit of advice (learned the hard way from someone who used to hide his SSID)...
Hiding the SSID is a bad idea on Macs to begin with. For whatever reason, the Airport drivers just don't deal well when there are other WAPs present and the one you want to connect to is hidden.
Hiding your SSID provides no additional security whatsoever. A simple scan with a decent sniffer will still yield your SSID. You're only making your wireless card work that much harder to maintain a connection. This has a direct impact on range and speed of connection.
I would strongly recommend broadcasting SSID and switching over to WPA2 if available and you haven't already done so (plain WPA is fine too).
Any hacker who is smart enough to break encryption, is going to chuckle heartily at a hidden SSID.
If there is one thing I have long learned in this business, is to take good advise when given...
SSID - broadcasting again.
WEP is toast
WPA is enabled.
Gracie!!!
I still get a small delay from Airport before it reacquires wireless connection when it awakes from sleep mode, but so far, so good.
I wonder if Apple is going to address some of these glitches with the new Leopard 10.5.3 that they started testing today...