On Feb 28, 2015, at 9:27 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Since this problem seers into your mind every safety feature possible he used 
> to set up his dad’s network and one was to make it invisible.
> 
> How is this done?  I have looked for post, most are very old and they do show 
> a way…but…how do you get back into the network to update settings or to make 
> changes if you can’t see it?

Most routers have the option to turn off the SSID broadcast. If you do so, the 
network won’t show up in the list of available WiFi networks, but you can still 
connect to it by manually typing in the network name.

> There must be pro’s and con’s to this, what do you think?

It might be somewhat useful as a security measure, but doesn’t hide your 
network from programs such as iStumbler or WiFi Explorer.


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