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Help Linsys wrt610 WIFI ISSUE

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I think that article was geared more for buisness use.

I hide my SSID and have no problem with wifi on my incredible. But I have a WRT160N.

It applies to home users as well. Turning off SSID causes the network to poll much more frequently (because no SSID broadcast is present and clients must poll the router to make sure it is still there), and a packet sniffer can use this frequent polling to get whatever information it needs to breach the network.
 
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