Netgear WG602v2 SSID broadcast

[bof]

I have a Netgear WG602v2 WAP running firmware version 2.0rc5.

I've disabled SSID broadcast through its config. screen, yet the SSID is
still visible to my PC using a WG 511.

Anyone know how to turn off SSID broadcast on this WAP?


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In message >, Brian McIlwrath
> writes
>bof > wrote:
>: I've disabled SSID broadcast through its config. screen, yet the SSID is
>: still visible to my PC using a WG 511.
>
>Are you sure you have understood things correctly? Disabling SSID
>broadcast *SHOULD* stop the base station randomly broadcasting it. HOWEVER
>SSID is needed to establish a connection and (on Windows XP at least) the
>laptop (or whatever) will itself cycle through SSIDs on its "known" list
>and the base station will respond to the correct one.

Thanks for the suggestion. I deleted the 'known' SSID from the laptop so
it wouldn't know what to look for and it could still see the WAP's SSID
on the stations list, but couldn't connect, I guess the laptop could
have remembered what it was previously set to even though I couldn't see
it in the config screens, I'll check later by configing the WAP with a
random name unknown to the laptop card.

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