Router set up help - Page 2

**Rob M** · 31-07-2005, 12:48

Have you got the SSID broadcast turned on or off?

MadGamer · 31-07-2005, 13:16

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

Have you got the SSID broadcast turned on or off?

Turned on

**Rob M** · 31-07-2005, 13:20

In post 7 you said

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Hide Wireless Network (Hide SSID)

I took that to mean that you were hiding the SSID.

Are you hiding it or not?

MadGamer · 31-07-2005, 13:23

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

In post 7 you said

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Hide Wireless Network (Hide SSID)

I took that to mean that you were hiding the SSID.

Are you hiding it or not?

Yeah i do have the SSID hidden.

**Rob M** · 31-07-2005, 13:32

Ok, unhide it.

It sounds like your PC is failing to find the connection - probably because the SSID is being hidden.

Mine does exactly the same thing every time I turn hide the SSID.

MadGamer · 31-07-2005, 13:44

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

Ok, unhide it.

It sounds like your PC is failing to find the connection - probably because the SSID is being hidden.

Mine does exactly the same thing every time I turn hide the SSID.

Ok what about this: What if i was to keep it on for now, but when i shut down, ill turn it off? Then when i boot up tommorow, turn it back on, and just use it while im browsing?

**Rob M** · 31-07-2005, 13:46

Why bother?

I don't understand everybody's fascination with hiding SSID's (I can see why people do it though).

In theory, yes.

You can continue to have it hidden for now, unhide it before you turn your PC off, and then hide it again once everything's connected tomorrow.

Consider this though.....

You hide the SSID to stop people seeing your wireless connection.....
You turn the hiding option off overnight.....
Unless you turn the router off as well people will be able to see the SSID being broadcast overnight, and as you'll be asleep you'll be even less likely to know if someone is using your connection

MadGamer · 31-07-2005, 13:50

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

Why bother?

I don't understand everybody's fascination with hiding SSID's (I can see why people do it though).

In theory, yes.

You can continue to have it hidden for now, unhide it before you turn your PC off, and then hide it again once everything's connected tomorrow.

Consider this though.....

You hide the SSID to stop people seeing your wireless connection.....
You turn the hiding option off overnight.....
Unless you turn the router off as well people will be able to see the SSID being broadcast overnight, and as you'll be asleep you'll be even less likely to know if someone is using your connection

The router is off as soon as i turn everything off at the mains, i have a plug bank you see so it runs off of that.

**Rob M** · 31-07-2005, 13:53

In that case it should be ok, hide it while you're connected, unhide just before you turn the PC off, re-hide when you turn everything back on and it's all connected

Give it a try tonight and see how you get on. Any more problems just post back.
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Actually, you know what?

Have you got modem, router, PC, all on the same bank?

If you have all three will be powering up at the same time, not a good thing.

The ideal power up order is:

Modem (let the lights settle)
Router (let the lights settle)
PC (let the HDD activity drop to a minimum and then log in)

MadGamer · 31-07-2005, 13:55

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

In that case it should be ok, hide it while you're connected, unhide just before you turn the PC off, re-hide when you turn everything back on and it's all connected

Give it a try tonight and see how you get on. Any more problems just post back.
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Actually, you know what?

Have you got modem, router, PC, all on the same bank?

If you have all three will be powering up at the same time, not a good thing.

The ideal power up order is:

Modem (let the lights settle)
Router (let the lights settle)
PC (let the HDD activity drop to a minimum and then log in)

No the router has a modem bult in, so i turn the mains on, let the router settle and then boot up the PC.

**Rob M** · 31-07-2005, 13:59

Cool.

Should be ok then

MadGamer · 31-07-2005, 16:10

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

Cool.

Should be ok then

Thanks for your help.

MadGamer · 02-08-2005, 21:47

I have another problem, when i boot up, i can access the Internet just fine, but when i enable the SSID to Hide, it drops and i cant display any pages, is there actually any need since my machine is up to date with all patches and ZA is set in stealth mod, and also since all the equipment is running off of a plug bank, as soon as i switch off the mains the PC and router gets turned off as well.

Also sometimes even with the SSID hidden i get a secondary connection called Net & Internet, pop up on the avaliable networks list.

nffc · 02-08-2005, 21:50

you need to tell the PC not to look for the SSID. IIRC, it should do this, after it's connected for the first time, but I'm not entirely sure.

The whole point of NOT broadcasting the SSID is so that it doesn't show up when it scans for NWs!

**Rob M** · 02-08-2005, 21:56

Ok, that second connection "Net and Internet" could be somebody else's wireless connection

TBH I don't see the need to hide the SSID provided that you've got the rest of the security set up correctly, but maybe that's just me

Hiding it has always caused me more grief than it's seemed to be worth