23 Nov
2017
23 Nov
'17
7:33 a.m.
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 10:08:59AM +1300, Eric Light wrote:
Why would that be happening, anyway? It is the base stations that should be broadcasting the SSIDs, and your portable devices that should be listening, not the other way round.
As far as I understand it, when phones aren't connected to wifi, they're constantly broadcasting probe requests for the SSID's that they remember, to see if they're around.
Yes, I would imagine that this is for hidden base stations which do not broadcast their availability. You have to know their SSID to connect. Cheers, Michael