Hi,
I was around a friends' house recently who has a wifi hub connected to the net, similar to what i have at home.
The difference though is that, whereas i have WEP activated on my router, my friend had trouble getting WEP etc to configure. So what he's done as a simple alternative is HIDE the SSID. Which is a STANDARD option that you can switch on, on most Wifi routers. (Mine has the ability to do this also.)
All it means you have to do in order to connect via a pc /laptop, is go into the config on your wireless card & manually specify the name of the 'hidden' SSID. Then hey presto!, your wifi card finds the zone & then it lets you connect.
Unless you delete the connection, for all subsequent connections, the PC/Laptop 'sees' the SSID zone, simply because you told it it was there.
Well, when trying to do so using the 9500, unless i am overlooking something, you CANNOT tell it to manually/blindly configure a SSID that you should be able to type in yourself, thus revealing the hidden zone of the same name.
This cumlinates in the 9500 NOT listing it even though you know it is there (just hidden). & therefore not possible to connect to it.
If Nokia allowed the ability to manually enter a SSID (As you do on a PC/laptop to connect to hidden zones.) Then it wouldn't be a problem.
Can someone please confirm that i am not going mad & missing something.
If i am, please describe how to connect to hidden SSIDs, then i can HIDE my SSID & try it out. - & so can anyone else who has experienced this.
Many thanks
Al 'xoio'
I would assume as the network is there and just "hidden" you should be able to set it up after "unhiding" the SSID, then once working you should be able to "hide" it again and have it carry on working.
Hi
I should imagine so.
However, by unhiding the ssid, it would involve dumping all the connections for the computers in that local zone. (Not to mention defeating the purpose of why it is hidden in the first place!) - Not a major problem, but a pain in the ass, if they are in the middle of doing something, that involves the net, eg an FTP transfer etc.. - Just to let one little device connect temporarily.
Take a laptop wanting to connect whilst the ssid is hidden.
As mentioned above, all you'd have to do is manually specify the ssid name & it will 'see' it.
Whereas the 9500 only allows to connect to SSID's it can SEE & name.
Even though one may be present but hidden.
Nokia need to add this feature, to bring the 9500 into line with what is standard Wifi fuctionality. & I maintain it is an oversight on their part.
Is there any way to 'submit' to nokia, faults /suggestions to them, so that they can consider them for future firmware upgrades?
Xoio
Aren't you able to do this in the control panel - connections - internet setup and create a new connection. It does ask the network name there...
I would guess it works like that (haven't tried on actual wifi network).
What I'm suggesting is that you hide it again once you've set it up on the 9500, as you won't be changing the name, it only needs to be visible for a minute for the 9500 to detect it.
Ok, from the suggestions above, lets see if i can get this sucker to do it!! :-0)
Amazing how much of the finer 'details' of working with the apps & subsystems are left out of the manual???
Heh this one is good. For the 9210 we wrote an "unnofficial" manual in the months after release, which is probably around here somewhere, to aid those new users who are finding that not everything is in the official manual.
I recently hid my SSID to give myself more security, my 9500 had already been successfully connecting to it up to this point. After hiding my 9500 didn't even know a wireless network was around, is this router specific or a general problem?
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