On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:47:49 -0500, arceelover
<arceelover.32zose@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> wrote in
<arceelover.32zose@no-mx.wirelessforums.org>:

>Just keep in mind that if you decide to keep your router from
>broadcasting its SSID, that you REMEMBER what that SSID is and how to
>stop it from hiding itself. I've a friend who can't extend service to
>any visitors to his house because he's forgotten how to keep his router
>from hiding its SSID. He had to manually reset to factory defaults and
>it was quite irritating to get everything back up to speed.

Turing off SSID broadcast *won't* improve security and is a *bad* idea
in general. Likewise MAC Filtering. The only thing that really works
is WPA with a strong passphrase.

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