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April 11th 05, 05:54 PM
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South Kensington Wireless LAN
"Clive Coleman" wrote in message
... In message .com, writes visible networks with SSID visible What is SSID? Service Set Identifier - effectively the name of the network, to distinguish it from other networks that might be within network range of a PC that wants to connect to the network. By not broadcasting the SSID, any PC that wants to connect to a network must be configured with the network's SSID - and if it can't supply that SSID, it doesn't connect. |
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April 11th 05, 11:25 PM
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Martin Underwood wrote: "Clive Coleman" wrote in message ... In message .com, writes visible networks with SSID visible What is SSID? Service Set Identifier - effectively the name of the network, to distinguish it from other networks that might be within network range of a PC that wants to connect to the network. By not broadcasting the SSID, any PC that wants to connect to a network must be configured with the network's SSID - and if it can't supply that SSID, it doesn't connect. The SSID is a name which is used in software to help users decide which network to connect to. If you set your laptop up to always connect to 'myCompany' then it will connect to any channel with an access point called 'myCompany'. That is the only use of the SSID, simply hiding it doesn't do much because a client could still try to connect to 'channel 5' and doesn't need to know the SSID in order to do this. Anyways - sorry for the thread - it went very OT and has not infact answered my query about the use of wireless networks on the tube |
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