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Old 03-11-2006, 06:52 PM   #1
HoOLi
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DLink DWL-650+ w/less adaptor needs ESSID broadcast?


Greetings,

I am wondering if anyone else has experienced other WiFi adaptors that require the WiFi router to explicitly broadcast it's ESSID.

The DLINK DWL-650+ adaptor (ya - it's old!) would not connect to a router with it's ESSID broadcast turned off.. I think that is VeRy poor!

Do other (newer) Dlink products behave like that?

What other brand adaptors allow explicit ESSID infrastructure settings - THAT connect? (ie this adaptor allowed you to plug in the settings, but didn't work accordingly)

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Old 03-12-2006, 07:23 AM   #2
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Needing the SSID broadcast turned on is actually fairly common, but it can be related to the driver being used. For example, I've got a Dell Truemobile 1300 and if I use ndiswrapper, it is perfectly happy with the SSID broadcast turned off. However if I switch to the bcm43xx driver, it works MUCH better with SSID broadcast turned on.

For what its worth, there really isn't an issue with having the SSID broadcast turned on. There is no significant security advantage to not broadcasting. If security is a concern, you're better off focusing on things like encryption (WEP/WPA) or locking down IP addresses to specific MAC addresses.
 
  


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