From: "John Beamish" 

The only network she's set up to automatically connect to is the one we
have.  Any others that show up are set to manual.


On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:27:27 -0500, John Beamish  wrote:

> I understand that not broadcasting the SSID is a minor issue to hackers
> who are using appropriate software but it's an issue to casual
> "chancers".
>
> As for the automatically connecting ... hmmm ... I'm in the middle of a
> few things.  I'll report back later.
>
> On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:31:59 -0500, Rich Gauszka
>  wrote:
>
>> It could just be that another wireless network is in range and
>> braodcasting
>> it's ssid
>>
>>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811427&Product=winxp
>>
>
>> I doubt not broadcasting the ssid helps with security.
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1102.mspx
>> Configuring hidden wireless networks is used as a security measure to
>

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