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Aspirant
Jul 29, 2015

WN3100RP error disabling SSID broadcasting

Hi all, I've recently purchased a WN3100RP and it works fine.. I want to disabling SSID broadcasting, but then I can't connect to it with my laptop (win 8.1). If I activate SSID broadcasting, I conne...
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Aspirant
Jul 31, 2015

Hi nhann,

 

I've created manually the profile, but my laptop says that it can't connect the the network. If I enable againt the SSID broadcasting, it connects successfully.

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Babylon5
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jul 31, 2015
There are some client devices and operating systems which don’t work well with disabled SSID beacons.