 enOehTPremium
join:2003-05-17
Langhorne, PA
1 edit | reply to Natoma
Re: Beware SSID Hiding Read the article. Interesting, but from my experience I have NOT noticed any performance decrease by not broadcasting my SSID. I get a constant 54mbps in my one bedroom apartment. Also, why would I want other people in my building to see that I have a wireless AP? By broadcasting it, it will show up as an available AP. This will tell people in my apartment complex that I have a laptop with WiFi, and hence might expose me to a possible robbery. Furthermore, this nonsense about the SSID being more exposed is ridiculous. This might be true if someone had sophisticated equipment to listen and interpret all this traffic, but come on, in the real world this doesn't exist, my neighbors aren't even smart enough to hide their off-the-shelf LINKSYS APs, so I am not worried about them sniffing my hidden SSID. |
