Hiding SSID - exactly what does this do?
I thought I knew, but........
Having just bought a new router, I was setting things up and once both my laptop and desktop were connected successfully, I chose the option that hid the SSID. When I rebooted my laptop (which runs Vista), it didn't connect to the router, and I couldn't get it to do so. As the SSID was not being shown, I was limited as to what I could do.
My desktop (which runs XP), which had been connected all the time, was OK, so I logged onto the router and set the SSID to display. When I went back to the laptop, which was still on, it had connected itself. On the face of it seems that with the SSID display off, the laptop wouldn't connect.
Does that make sense, or is something else going on that I don't understand?