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smurph · 05-03-2004, 09:25

Arrived late to this party.....I've just got my Linksys based wireless network set up. Everything is working smooth as silk. Two quick questions -

1) SSID hiding - the router set up screens says that SSID broadcasting is disabled, but the wireless adaptor software on my PC's can still see the SSID on a site survey, but only with a valid wireless connection to the router. Can I take it this is normal behaviour?

2) The router has stealthed all my ports, even port 113 with a bit of shifty port-forwarding. Do you guys think it is really necessary to hold onto a software firewall (I'm using Norton 2003 at the mo, it's a resource hog). I am always very careful to avoid viri and spyware anyhow.....

05-03-2004, 09:25	#85
smurph Inactive Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 10	Re: Help with Wireless Connection needed Arrived late to this party.....I've just got my Linksys based wireless network set up. Everything is working smooth as silk. Two quick questions - 1) SSID hiding - the router set up screens says that SSID broadcasting is disabled, but the wireless adaptor software on my PC's can still see the SSID on a site survey, but only with a valid wireless connection to the router. Can I take it this is normal behaviour? 2) The router has stealthed all my ports, even port 113 with a bit of shifty port-forwarding. Do you guys think it is really necessary to hold onto a software firewall (I'm using Norton 2003 at the mo, it's a resource hog). I am always very careful to avoid viri and spyware anyhow.....