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Atila Iskander Atila Iskander is offline
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"Tomsic" wrote in message ...

"Oren" wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 10:48:07 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"
wrote:

What issues does an invisible (or SSID unknown) network cause for other
wireless users?


A tad longer to connect, perhaps some lag time..

Is you router set for strong encryption?

"If your router supports WPA (or WPA/PSK) use that instead of WEP,
which is an older technology"

Read mo http://askbobrankin.com/hide_your_ss...#ixzz27V64bIZv


Seems like WPA plus a strong password would handle just about anything
except perhaps a hacker army. The installer who set up my router recently
also told me to use passwords with a space or two in them which apparently
makes them much harder to figure out.


I use lines of poetry, including capitals, accents and punctuation
You need to know the poet, poem and language to figure it out.

Easy to memorize and very hard to break.