Hide Or Broadcast The Ssid For A Wifi Network - NETGEAR WAX610 User Manual

Insight Managed WiFi 6 AX1800 Dual Band Access Point WAX610 User Manual
• Does your WiFi device display as a connected client? (See View client distribution,
connected clients, and client trends on page 176.) If it does, it is connected to the
network.
• Are you using the correct WiFi network name (SSID) and password?
• If you changed the WiFi authentication and encryption to WPA3 Personal, make
sure that the WiFi adapter device driver is updated to the latest version on your
WiFi-enabled computer or mobile device.
Hide or broadcast the SSID for a WiFi
network
By default, a WiFi network (SSID or VAP) broadcasts its network name (also referred to
as the SSID) so that WiFi clients can detect the SSID in their scanned network lists. For
additional security, you can turn off the SSID broadcast and hide the SSID so that users
must know the SSID to be able to join the WiFi network.
Note: If you set up a wireless distribution system (WDS; see Set up a WiFi Bridge on
page 188), you must keep the SSID broadcast enabled.
To hide or broadcast the network name for a WiFi network:
1. Open a web browser from a computer that is connected to the same network as the
access point or directly to the access point through an Ethernet cable or WiFi
connection.
2. Enter the IP address that is assigned to the access point.
A login window opens.
If your browser does not open the login window but displays a security message
and does not let you proceed, see Log in to the access point after initial setup on
page 37.
3. Enter the access point user name and password.
The user name is admin. The password is the one that you specified. The user name
and password are case-sensitive.
If you previously added the access point to a NETGEAR Insight network location and
managed the access point through the Insight app or Insight Cloud portal, enter the
Insight network password for that location. For more information, see Connect over
WiFi using the NETGEAR Insight app on page 22.
The Dashboard page displays.
4. Select Management > Configuration > Wireless > Basic.
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