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Originally posted by Jwilker
yeah most likely it's on. In the Access Point control panel (a web page) there will be a check box usually that says broadcast SSID
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If ssid wasn't on you wouldn't get a network name as far as I know; which is the point. Hackers can discover the network name by packet sniffing traffic but as far as I know there's nothing that does this painlessly and automatically, which is again the point of turning it off. I used dots and commas and dashes in the name for mine making it really hard to just guess it too. What the other guy said, I've also heard, some wireless cards don't play well with access points that don't have ssid broadcast turned on. Obviously a public access point wouldn't have it shut off.