Re: Roaming Woes (PPC5555)

From: Sooner Al (SoonerAl_at_somewhere.net.invalid)
Date: 06/19/04

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    You might be interested in this long thread over on the DSL Reports forums concerning the issue of
    broadcast or no broadcast of SSID enhancing your network security...

    http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8735225~mode=flat

    Personally, I broadcast my network SSID and take other measures to secure access to my home LAN
    including WPA-PSK with a very long random key... 

    -- 
    Al Jarvi (MS-MVP Windows Networking)
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"V Green" <vancegrn@nowhere.net> wrote in message news:OFKAVkiVEHA.2944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>
> "Walt" <walts@no-spam.gate.net> wrote in message news:ulbi73gVEHA.2520@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>  I've been using an iPAQ PPC 5555 for a year or more, and I just upgraded the ROM to the 1.10.10 
>> version.  I hoped it would clear up my roaming problems but it hasn't.
>>
>> I use two 802.11b networks, one at work and one at home.  Both are configured to use WEP, and do 
>> not broadcast the SSID.   Different SSIDs, channels, and WEP keys are used, and the two networks 
>> are miles apart. I have checked with Air Magnet and there are no other APs within range of either 
>> network.  When I turn on the iPAQ at one location, having been previously connected to the other, 
>> it always claims it is connected to the "old" network, and sometimes shows the "new" network as 
>> Available. When that happens, I can tap-and-hold and choose "Connect" and it will. The rest of 
>> the time I have to do a soft reset to get the iPAQ to connect to the currently available network.
>>
>> Heaven forbid I should turn the iPAQ on in a restaurant that offers WI-FI! Even if I don't try to 
>> connect to the restaurant's AP, when I get home or to work, it stubbornly insists it is connected 
>> to the restaurant.
>>
>> There must be a way to get the WI-FI working properly on this device!
>>
>> Any help at all will be appreciated!
>>
>> Walt
>
> You are fighting a losing battle running a PPC with the horrible
> unalterable unconfigurable Zero Config service which NEEDS SSID
> broadcast to be ON.  The behavior you're experiencing is just
> one of many that occur when it's off.
>
> We've been through this before, many times.
>
> Most of us who realize that non-broadcast of our SSID's
> is a valuable layer of protection have eventually given up and turned
> it on just to make our lives simpler, albeit less secure.
>
> And, please, you "experts" out there with the links to
> how turning SSID OFF does NOTHING for your security,
> just zip it and keep quiet.
>
> Only an idiot would believe that - think it through -
> logic dictates you can't
> compromise what you can't (easily) see.
>
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