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Buffalo Air Station 125 on a desktop - Desktop is Win XP SP2. Laptop
(Win2K) has a Buffalo 125 Cardbus in it and works fine, connecting
automatically when booted up. I have WPA-AES enabled and all works fine. I
then tried switching off broadcasting the SSID and suddenly I can longer
connect to the internet on the laptop. I use an existing profile to connect
to the AP which as far as I can see is successful because I get a good
signal strength (Better than normal in fact), but just can't connect to the
web. Trouble is that I get a message that says Access Point not found, but
how can I be getting a good signal if no AP is found? As soon as I
re-enable broadcasting I can see the network from the laptop, can reconnect
and immediately see it renew the IP address, and can also then connect to
the web.
I know that not broadcasting the SSID doesn't really do anything for
security and so can simply re-enable it, but it's bugging me as to why it
should do this.
Any thoughts anyone???
Regards
Ken...................
Buffalo Air Station 125 on a desktop - Desktop is Win XP SP2. Laptop
(Win2K) has a Buffalo 125 Cardbus in it and works fine, connecting
automatically when booted up. I have WPA-AES enabled and all works fine. I
then tried switching off broadcasting the SSID and suddenly I can longer
connect to the internet on the laptop. I use an existing profile to connect
to the AP which as far as I can see is successful because I get a good
signal strength (Better than normal in fact), but just can't connect to the
web. Trouble is that I get a message that says Access Point not found, but
how can I be getting a good signal if no AP is found? As soon as I
re-enable broadcasting I can see the network from the laptop, can reconnect
and immediately see it renew the IP address, and can also then connect to
the web.
I know that not broadcasting the SSID doesn't really do anything for
security and so can simply re-enable it, but it's bugging me as to why it
should do this.
Any thoughts anyone???
Regards
Ken...................