Re: Wireless Disconnects

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:43:42 +0000, Mark McIntyre
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John Navas wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:08:41 -0600, Char Jackson <none@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in <3li6i4di802m6ehtdo88crd0p2p93gjetk@xxxxxxx>:

I'm with you, Mark. To a degree, I appreciate it when my neighbors
identify themselves via their SSID, but it's not something I do myself
or for any of the people I set up.

Because ... ???

Because I don't want people trivially knowing which house a given
network is in.

My own take is that there's no real downside.

Jeff's given some good reasons why you might want to set customers up
that way, especially commercial ones, but I don't think those really
apply to private networks.

My own take is that it can save a great deal of grief when there's an
offending wireless network.

And... anyone who needs Jeff to configure their router is hardly likely
to be able to figure out which of their neighbours is causing
interference, and even less likely to be able to figure out how to stop
interfering with other people's networks. :-)

My own take is that there are lots of competent computer folks around.
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