I'm currently home from school for spring break and brought my desktop home with me. Upstairs in my room I don't have any way to hardwire a connection for my desktop and I decided against buying a wireless card back when I built. Any times that I am home and am in this situation, I just create a network bridge with my laptop and run an Ethernet cable from my desktop to my laptop and it works well enough (network drops sometimes but it's not too bad). The issue I'm having is that recently I decided to make some changes to my home network. I hid our SSID and set up a guest wifi so that way anyone that came over didn't have unabridged access to our network and would have to use the guest wifi. My issue is that since I made these changes, my network bridge stopped working. Is there anyway around this or do I have to unhide the network in order for the network bridge to work properly?
Network Bridge Stops Working When I Hide My Network
- Thread starter Kenny_74
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panathas
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- Feb 12, 2014
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Some network adapters/devices have various issues or behave strangely when you are hiding the SSID. You have to either use the latest driver version you can find and update each network device with its latest firmware. If that doesn't solve your issues, I'm afraid you have to disable the hide SSID setting. I also have a similar issue in my home network because of a wifi printer that isn't able to properly connect to the network every time I try to hide the SSID. It's my only network device that has that issue and unfortunately can't be updated with a new firmware.
This is one of the known issues with hiding the SSID. I forget the exact list but there are a number of things that do not work properly. It technically is against the standard to not broadcast the ssid so some device that meet the standard exactly do not support it.
Hiding the SSID is pretty much a waste of time. Anyone that is actually going to hack wireless will be able to find the SSID anyway. As long as you use a good password/key with WPA2 the connection is considered uncrackable. I would hope you have a password on your guest connection also.
The main thing you should be sure to disable though is WPS. That is on by default on many routers and is a massive security exposure. They leave if on for all the stupid people who are too lazy to even type making the rest of us exposed to hackers.
Hiding the SSID is pretty much a waste of time. Anyone that is actually going to hack wireless will be able to find the SSID anyway. As long as you use a good password/key with WPA2 the connection is considered uncrackable. I would hope you have a password on your guest connection also.
The main thing you should be sure to disable though is WPS. That is on by default on many routers and is a massive security exposure. They leave if on for all the stupid people who are too lazy to even type making the rest of us exposed to hackers.
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