[Wylug-help] Cheap wireless ethernet

[John Hodrien]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Chris Davies MBCS wrote:

> Does NetStumbler (for Windows) pick up "hidden" essids? I've never been sure.

Seems to vary depending on the chipset what it does.  ralink in desktop
struggles to pick up much at all (inbuilt tool can detect more than ns), intel
ipw2200 seems to detect hidden essid networks.

jh

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