Why is my ssid not broadcasting

Band: Consumer-grade WiFi routers broadcast either in the 2. The former band is able to carry signals over longer distances, while the latter band offers more bandwidth. Often, routers use both of these bands at the same time to combine their strengths and minimize their weaknesses.

Channel: Because there are only 11 channels in the 2. Get more information on how to use a WiFi channel analyzer to see the co-channel interference and find the best WiFi channel for your router. NetSpot is able to tell which company has manufactured the router broadcasting a hidden network. With NetSpot, you can easily spot such networks and filter them out to avoid exposing your personal information or getting hacked. You can also use NetSpot to survey a known hidden WiFi network.

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SSID not broadcasting. This thread has been viewed 20 times. Posted Apr 25, PM. Reply Reply Privately Options Dropdown. I went on my desktop computer and enabled SSID broadcast. This leaves me right back where I started. Okay, so your system is "seeing" the hidden wireless network and listing it as available but you're unable to connect to it until you "unhide" it, is that correct? See if that changes any of the symptoms you're seeing. The error message your seeing about "unable to connect" implies that as well if it's "seeing" the SSID but not connecting but that message could also just be a generic Windows way of saying it doesn't see the network.

Try creating a new user account in Windows See if that user account is able to locate and connect to the hidden SSID like you would expect. It could be an issue with the user account being corrupted and causing conflicts. I keep thinking this is more to do with the Windows profiles and user account than the drivers themselves.

Lots of people turn off broadcasting their SSIDs so there has to be something we're missing here. Ok, this is how it went. I changed the router setting to WEP and created a new user account in Windows 10, I left the SSID broadcast enabled and I was able to connect wirelessly to my network using both my account and the new user account.

I then disabled SSID broadcast after which I attempted to connect wirelessly using the new user account and then my own user account and both connections came up "Can't connect to this network". On each of these devices I was able to successfully connect to my network via WiFi. This leaves only one device that is unable to connect to my WiFi network: My new Inspiron laptop.

There is one thing I'd like to add to this discussion, just in case it could have some affect on the issue. When I was shopping for this laptop I was encouraged to make sure that it had the latest wireless protocol protocol probably isn't the right word but it seemed to fit.

Anyway as you probably know this laptop has that protocol, namely One more thing, I don't think my laptop is finding my network when the SSID broadcast is disabled because when I sign on the the hidden network, the icon only has 2 bars tit up and I believe that if it was my network it was finding there would be at least three of the four bars lit up.

And since you have the Intel card in your system which driver is currently installed? Here is a link to Version: Try the newer driver, if you haven't, and see if that helps. Does your router support both 2. If so, try the 5 GHz and see if that helps.