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Gareth · 01-02-2006, 13:01

By disabling it, you'll be stopping your casual neighbour from seeing that your network exists, and realising that they're sharing the same channel as you. It won't stop the determined hacker from finding your network and obtaining the SSID.

Personally, I leave it enabled and spend more time on encryption, which will seriously slow down anyone trying to hack into your WLAN, and will positively stop people casually connecting to you.

01-02-2006, 13:01	#11
Gareth cf.mega poster Join Date: Dec 2003 Age: 50 Posts: 7,101	Re: Two dumb networking questions By disabling it, you'll be stopping your casual neighbour from seeing that your network exists, and realising that they're sharing the same channel as you. It won't stop the determined hacker from finding your network and obtaining the SSID. Personally, I leave it enabled and spend more time on encryption, which will seriously slow down anyone trying to hack into your WLAN, and will positively stop people casually connecting to you.