All laptops are windows 10. Hidden ssid does virtually nothing for wifi security.
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Can t connect to hidden network. Open network and sharing center now click on set up a new connection or network from the settings you see on the next window you can choose to connect to a network manually find the right option click on it and then enter the requested information about your network such as security key network name and security type. List of available networks will now appear. Save yourself the headache 11. Select hidden network and check connect automatically option. Anyone with a 12 wifi dongle can discover your network. If your computer still connected to the network the issue probably was solved you can restart you pc and must connect to hidden network.
Connect to the network and then enter on your wireless device and disable the broadcasting. Just use a strong randomized password and disable wps. Your device connects to the network. The connect automatically box is checked on the hidden network and even if i uncheck the box it will come back as checked. To do that just follow these steps. Click the wi fi icon on your taskbar.
Enter the network name ssid security type and password. Select settings wi fi add wi fi network. Just unhide your network. In most cases you can follow this procedure to connect to a hidden network. This is true only on my laptop. All the other networks in my neighborhood no longer display.
All other devices laptops in the house show the neighbors networks and no hidden network.