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Automatically Connecting to Hidden SSID WiFi Network

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202652493 views
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Problem

My MacBook Pro will not automatically connect to a Wireless network with a hidden SSID. It makes me select the "Join Other Network..." in the Airport menu (in the system tray), where I need to input the name of the network, then security type, password and wait for it to connect. This is becoming i…

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Fix for: Automatically Connecting to Hidden SSID WiFi Network

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Automatically connecting to a network with a hidden SSID is a bad idea. Since your computer cannot passively listen for the SSID broadcast and automatically connect when it sees the SSID (which will not show in the beacon broadcast, since that is ho…

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