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MBP/AirPort compatibility with invisible SSID/network?
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 984448" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Disabling SSID broadcast yields absolutely no benefit whatsoever. Anyone using a WiFi sniffer is still going to see it.</p><p></p><p>What is DOES do, is make it a whole lot harder to establish and maintain a WiFi connection.</p><p></p><p>Why do you have issues with your Mac and not your Windows machines? My guess is the way the drivers are written. I have tested exhaustively in different configurations and ultimately I've determined that it's just a deficiency in the drivers.</p><p></p><p>But again, there's little point to disabling it in the first place. If you were using an easily crackable encryption mechanism like WEP, then it might be advisable to keep your network obscured from the relatively ignorant. But with modern WPA or WPA2/AES encryption, you've got nothing to worry about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 984448, member: 24098"] Disabling SSID broadcast yields absolutely no benefit whatsoever. Anyone using a WiFi sniffer is still going to see it. What is DOES do, is make it a whole lot harder to establish and maintain a WiFi connection. Why do you have issues with your Mac and not your Windows machines? My guess is the way the drivers are written. I have tested exhaustively in different configurations and ultimately I've determined that it's just a deficiency in the drivers. But again, there's little point to disabling it in the first place. If you were using an easily crackable encryption mechanism like WEP, then it might be advisable to keep your network obscured from the relatively ignorant. But with modern WPA or WPA2/AES encryption, you've got nothing to worry about. [/QUOTE]
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