Disabling the SSID broadcasting on E3000.

Disabling the SSID broadcasting on E3000, is it necessary, if so what can expect to happen?

No it is not necessary. In fact it will make it more difficult for your wireless devices to connect. It does nothing for security. Leave it enabled.

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Can you disable the SSID broadcast without turning off WIFI?

Is there a way to disable the SSID broadcast without disabling WIFI altogether? Prior to the 4.3 IOS upgrade I could keep my WIFI enabled and when at home, the phone would automatically switch to my hi speed WIFI. The new upgrade now turns your phone into a WIFI/MYFI hotspot and broadcasts your phones SSID to the world.
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The new upgrade now turns your phone into a WIFI/MYFI hotspot and broadcasts your phones SSID to the world.
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Only if you have enabled and setup personal hotspot settings in your network settings, AND have the hotspot conneciton active AND are sharing the hotspot connection via wifi.
If you do not have Personal Hotspot features enabled or active, your iPhone is not broadcasting any network connection ID information, with or without wifi enabled.
P.S. according to the iOS release notes, even if you leave Hotspot active, it will stop broadcasting the SSID after a timeour with no connections, since the HotSpot feature turns off after a short timeout with no activity.

Adapter can't detect router if the SSID Broadcast is disabled, why? =(

Why can't my Linksys WUSB300N Adapter detect my Linksys WRT54GX SRX Router unless I broadcast the SSID?
I want my Router to be hidden, but everytime I try to disable the SSID Broadcast of my Router, my Linksys Adapter fails to locate it and I end up losing my connection to the router altogether. I am running Windows Vista and I have the 1.0.0.1 driver for Vista. What could I be doing wrong? Please help.

This is a common problem. Are there several other networks in your neighborhood? Are other users also not broadcasting their SSID?
I used to recommend that SSID broadcast be set to "disabled" for security reasons. But newer cracking methods have made this old trick worthless. It adds little or no security to your system. I now recommend that SSID broadcast be set to "enabled". This will help your computer find, and lock on to your router's signal. And this should give at least some slight boost in network performance.
For wireless security, you should be using WPA2, or at least WPA encryption, and a strong password. By strong password I mean at least 24 random characters including capital letters, small letters, and digits (but no spaces.). If you are using this type of security, you do not need to worry about broadcasting your SSID.

WRT54G with USB11 v 2.6: Can't automaticaly reconnect after SSID broadcast disabled

Hi All,
I'm trying to make my network more secure. I've done all the basics, including disabling the SSID broadcast. The only problem is that after a few hours, I lose connectivity on the USB 11 wireless adapter and have to directly connect to the router via a cat 5 cable and reset the SSID to broadcast, which causes my network to find it and logs in. I reset the SSID broadcast to disable and get a few more hours of conenctivity until it drops again.
My router is ver 2.0 and my adapter is 2.6. This is the first time in 4 years I've had any probs with my wireless network.
My PC is brand new and pretty mid-high-end. Intel duo-core, 2 GB ram, etc...
Any help would be appreciated.

Best thing is to just enable SSID. It's a myth that disablling helps with security, it does for the average joe... a bit. but not really.
I found a great article about how disabling SSID doesn'treally do much for security at all, but i can't seem to laocte ti right now. I was googling wireless security stuff about a month or so ago, guess i should have bookmarked that one.

How can I disable SSID broadcast with Time Capsule?

I have always disabled the SSID broadcast with other devices. It is a big help with securing the networks. Can this be done with Time Capsule? If yes, please tell me how.
Thanks.

I have always disabled the SSID broadcast with other devices. It is a big help with securing the networks. Can this be done with Time Capsule? If yes, please tell me how.
You can by turning on hidden network.
Open the airport utility .. click on your TC, and then edit.. go to the wireless TAB. Click on wireless options. Click Create hidden network.
Let me add in modern world.. it is totally useless. A person can see your hidden network using any standard wireless analysis software. It adds no security at all.. and WPA2 Personal with a decent password 10-20 characters mix of upper and lower case plus numbers is still solid.. add more characters if you are paranoid.. but honestly hiding SSID does nothing.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/28653/debunking-myths-is-hiding-your-wireless-ssi d-really-more-secure/
If you did not know it is not part of the IEEE wireless standard.. it therefore often leads to problems with clients.
There are many other reasons given in the article above..

WRT54G-V3 Disabling SSID Broadcast/Laptop connectivity

I set up this wrt54g v3 yesterday
everything went well
but when I attempted to disable the ssid broadcast for the network, I completely loose all connectivity on the wireless laptop
here is what I have
wpa-psk/tkip
wireless mac filtering
and my challenge is this "disable broacast" thing because once I do I loose all connectivity on the laptop.
As of 9:00am EST I have the broadcasting on but the network is secured but I really would like to know what element I'm missing here.
Also when I did this able the broadcast the laptop wireless card was flickering but I never quite stayed on for me to use it.
My goal (if I had one) would be do disable the broadcast and still have my laptop have connectivity to the AP.
Thanks in advance and God bless.

Hmmmm... probably a laptop glitch.... can't connect to the network coz it can't see it.
Try upgrading the routers firmware while your at it. It's the most you could do coz everything actually checks out fine.
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Trying to disable ssid broadcast

im trying to disable the ssid broadcast using the web page but it still keeps announcing itself. Any idea of what is wrong? i have a WRT54G2 v1 router.

How do you know that it is still announcing itself?
Many wireless adapters will continue to list (for several days) a wireless network that was previously found, but is now turned off. So just because your wireless adapter lists your SSID, does not mean that your router is still broadcasting its SSID.
To verify this, turn off SSID broadcast, save the settings, then change your SSID, and save the settings again, power down your entire network, wait one minute, then power up your network. Your new SSID will not show up when you display available networks using your wireless adapter.
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How to confirm access secure with SSID broadcast disabled?

I have set up my wireless router with a unique SSID, SSID broadcast disabled, and with WPA enabled. With my PC turned off, the 'WLAN' light remains lit. Is this a 'feature' of the WRT54G wireless router, or is someone else actually using my wireless router?

the WLAN light will be lit as long as you have the wireless function on the router "enabled" . You may have disable the SSID broadcast....however that does not stop the wireless function on the router.

How to enable SSID broadcast? (E4200 Cloud f/w)

I got E4200 v.2 with the latest cloud firmware. On the previous (non-cloud) firmware there was an option to enable or disable SSID broadcast, and I disable it. Now I want to enable it back, but can not find this option in Cisco Connect Cloud.
So there is a question: how to enable SSID broadcast on the E4200 v.2 with Cisco Connect Cloud firmware?
wbr, bg

In your case, you need to reset the router to factory defaults, at which point the SSID will be set to broadcast and it cannot be disabled. To know more about why there is no option to disable the SSID broadcast anymore on the Cloud firmware, click here.

Can I disable the wireless signal?

I'm using a wireless router (e2000) as a wired router. I don't currently have a use for the wireless feature, so can I turn that off somehow?

Wizzard wrote:
Under the Wireless tab,select manual and disable the option "SSID Broadcast" and click on save settings.
That won't disable the wireless signal. It will only disable the SSID broadcast. The wireless is still accessible. It will still cause transmissions. The network is still accessible. The presence of the wireless router is still easily detected.
Only setting the network mode to "disabled" will disable the wireless radio in the router, i.e. powering it off.

Disabling SSID Broadcast Question

I'm glad to say that my just installed router (WRT54GS-7) is working great. I have a question however on Disabling SSID Broadcast. According to the Linksys instructions, after I checked the disable button, I am required to change my profile. I am to click on an icon on the bottom right tool bar. The issue I have is that there is no icon to click on. If I disable my SSID Broadcast, how do I go about changing my profile?

If Windows is the primary connection software for your wireless, simply open Start-->Control Panel-->Network Connections
Right-click the wireless network connection in that list and click Properties, the second tab labeled Wireless Networks will allow you to create a profile for a wireless network. Profiles appear in the Preferred Networks list. If this area is greyed out that means you installed 3rd party software to handle your wireless connections. In which case you will need to open that software and configure the profile from within there.

Disabled SSID Broadcast, but it's still broadcasting

OK, here's a wierd one. I was able to finally disable my SSID broadcast the other day. But I noticed that it is still broadcasting. I rechecked the configurations twice. Any idea why it's still broadcasting even though I set it up to NOT broadcast?

Did you change your SSID?
Or using default SSID (linksys)?
Try...
- Reset Router
- Change SSID > save
- Check wireless connection
- Disable SSID broadcasting > save
- Run 'Site survey' (or 'View available wireless networks' on Win XP)
Is your NEW SSID still detected?

IPad loses wifi connection when SSID broadcast is disabled

Has anyone experienced this? what is the fix?

Do all the configuring while SSID broadcast is enabled. Make sure the computer connects. And make sure it connects automatically when the network is in range. Once you have established that, turn off the SSID broadcast and see if it is still working.

Survey fail even with SSID broadcast

I fail the initial survey every time I try with the WRE54G. No wireless networks show up - and I get over 20 when I try with other devices. I usually have SSID broadcast disabled, but have enabled it on the WRT54G router when setting up the RE. Any advice?Thanks in advance!

Hi,
Just make sure that the range expander is properly configured and well synchronized with the router , and make sure that the ssid broadcast on the range expander is also enabled.

E4200 SSID Broadcast

E4200 not letting my known wireless devices connect when SSID Broadcast is turned off.

It is not your E4200 that doesn't let the device connect. It's the device which has problems with the disabled SSID broadcast.
Don't turn off the SSID broadcast. It only creates problems and has absolutely no benefits.

Disabling the SSID broadcasting on E3000.

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