Hi folks,

I have a 2860 n+ with an AP900

ssid 1 is hidden
ssid 2 is not hidden and acts as my guest internet access.

Now, my mobile phone says no signal on ssid 1. When I uncheck "hide ssid" the signal comes back.
I am running on firmware 8.3
Surely having ssid 1 already listed on my phone it should connect regardless of the hidden status of the ssid.

Kirton

Maybe some incompatibility assuming you entered the SSID correctly manually into the device... but why hide it ?

Thanks for the reply.

I hide it so that users of the public ssid can only see the one.

Kirton

But surely you have a password on the one they shouldn't use. To stop them
accidentally trying and getting confused, you can always call them
House_Guest
House_Private

etc.

That's true but it would be more elegant if House_Guest is all the guest could see in the ssid list.
The router has that functionality I believe.

It sounds like the way the phone works - it wrongly checks that it can 'see' the SSID before attempting a connection..but as I understand it, a client should not do that (otherwise hide SSID would never work). Do you have another device for comparison?