Like others said, does nothing for security.
The main thing that it helps with at this point is to limit the broadcast or association requests to your AP. Massive amounts of broadcast and association request can slow the network down, just like a DoS attack. Everytime someone tries to associate to the AP, it causes a stop of sending to you so that it can send info to the new client. Pretty much a RTS/CTS. Plus, if the client is far away from the AP, they will send on the lowest data rate, which can cause an impact on wireless performance.
I still broadcast all my SSIDs. We generally turn off broadcasting for customers that require 100%, non stop connectivity. Such as a hospital, ticketing systems, Video or VoIP.
Just set it up with WPAv2-AES PSK or if you have a local user database you can run Enterprise with PEAP-MSCHAPv2. The latter may be a bit much for a home network.
Edited by Biscuits_N_Gravy - 9/12/11 at 6:18pm
The main thing that it helps with at this point is to limit the broadcast or association requests to your AP. Massive amounts of broadcast and association request can slow the network down, just like a DoS attack. Everytime someone tries to associate to the AP, it causes a stop of sending to you so that it can send info to the new client. Pretty much a RTS/CTS. Plus, if the client is far away from the AP, they will send on the lowest data rate, which can cause an impact on wireless performance.
I still broadcast all my SSIDs. We generally turn off broadcasting for customers that require 100%, non stop connectivity. Such as a hospital, ticketing systems, Video or VoIP.
Just set it up with WPAv2-AES PSK or if you have a local user database you can run Enterprise with PEAP-MSCHAPv2. The latter may be a bit much for a home network.
Edited by Biscuits_N_Gravy - 9/12/11 at 6:18pm
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