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Disabled SSID broadcast showing up as "Other Network" [RESOLVED]
I have a pesky neighbor (a newly moved-back-home relative, long story) who continually wants to piggyback off my connection, and I am trying to prevent that without having to be very rude about it.
He has Windows 7 (so do we) and I've gone ahead and disabled the SSID broadcast from my router altogether, assuming that when he looks for my connection it won't be found. I was then simply going to tell him that we have unsubscribed from WiFi and are now only using Ethernet, instead of having to tell him "oh, we've changed the password and don't want to give it to you".
But it seems that even when SSID broadcasting is disabled, our network shows up as "Other Network" with full signal to him (and on my Windows 7 laptop). So it is quite obvious to him that we've simply changed the SSID and password, not that our wireless capabilities have been discontinued.
Why does a disabled SSID still show as "Other Network" in the list of available connections on Windows 7? Doesn't this defeat the entire purpose of disabling the SSID broadcast?
Last edited by CIS; 18 Aug 2010 at 16:22.