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Originally Posted by goldchip
I have the same problem @ work, I recently had a Cisco wifi router put in, and have found that only by allowing the SSID to broadcast can visitors use our LAN.
So, I use WEP, and have to physically add the key to each laptop that comes onsite.
So, anyone finding an answer to this one, (can't use the MAC address as all are different with each visitor), would make me happy  |
You can hide your SSID as long as you tell the people you want to use it. In the Windows 'Wireless Network Connections' property sheet you can 'Add' a prefered network. See
here for a screenshot of the XP SP2 version. You are already giving them Wep key which has to be input in the Wireless Network Properties anyway along with the SSID, so you could just add the hidden SSID with no WEP to the Prefered Network list . Hope that makes sense.
While we are on the subject of securing company WLan's, the way we do it is to use a known hidden SSID with no WEP, but the Wireless net only has access to a VPN router. Therefore in order use our real network you have to know the SSID and use a two factor authenticated VPN. Easier to manage than a changing WEP key and more secure than static WEP.
HTH