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P990 wifi observation
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Posted by: shockdaddyd

I was just playing with my spiffy new P990i and decided to setup my wifi to hit a known Apple basestation. I know for a fact that this AP is protected with WPA and the BSID is hidden. To my knowledge no Mac or PC can see this AP yet my P990i can see it.

New technology that makes you go hmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: PNice972

weird, mine doesn't do that

Posted by: shockdaddyd

It's really quite strange. A friend claims his Pocket PC does the same.

What type of AP (brand) are you trying to see? In my case it's the newest Apple Airport.

Posted by: wr wagon

It depends on what you are looking with. On my G4 867 PB (NOT new technology, by any stretch of the imagination), I cannot see basestations with hidden BSID by looking in the airport menu. However, I can see all wireless networks in range of my computer (hidden or not) when I am running iStumbler. So perhaps the P990 is doing the same thing iStumbler is.

Posted by: shockdaddyd

Yep, there are many, many ways to about this. It's just interesting to me that this phone does it straight out of the box.