wireless card cannot find wireless router when SSID broadcast is off

Hi all,

When I turn off SSID broadcast on my USRobotics8054 router as one of the
security measures, the client (equipped with USR wireless PC card 805410)
cannot find the router anymore, even though name and channel etc were saved
when connected when SSID was still on. This used to work fine on another
router, thus I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. I thought having SSID
broadcast enabled was like hanging a sign in front of the house saying "hack
me".

Anyone any thoughts on the matter?

cheers,

BN

From reading old posts I gather that this problem occurs frequently. I
figured getting a wireless router and pc card from a quality name like USR
would keep me from such trouble, but there it is. The posts I found mention
that turning off SSID broadcast is a superficial meaqsure anyway, as with
the simplest and readily available tools (and those with bad intentions will
come prepared) the cloaked signal can be found easily anyway. As such you're
better off using MAC filtering and WPA, which is what I;'m doing, and
leaving SSID broadcast on, at least this way the setup works.

regards,

BN

"Bob Newheart" <paddo16_kill_spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:42ef16d2$0$11065$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> Hi all,
>
> When I turn off SSID broadcast on my USRobotics8054 router as one of the
> security measures, the client (equipped with USR wireless PC card 805410)
> cannot find the router anymore, even though name and channel etc were
saved
> when connected when SSID was still on. This used to work fine on another
> router, thus I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong. I thought having SSID
> broadcast enabled was like hanging a sign in front of the house saying
"hack
> me".
>
> Anyone any thoughts on the matter?
>
> cheers,
>
> BN
>
>