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Hidden Network
This is probebly crazy, but I'll ask anyway. Is the Gen5 modem-wifi creating a hidden network? I've been noticing it every time that I turn on wifi on my Wondows 10 Surface Pro 3. When I unpl...
Yes the signal is coming from your HT2000w... You wont be able to connect to that signal, and the signal is disabled if you disable the Wifi on the modem.
It's kind of like the USB port on the back of the HT1100... It's there for "future use", but, we have no idea when or if that future will ever come. :)You'll pardon my "clueles banter", but tone is as tone does.
First question asked about hidden network. After thinking about it I asked 2 more questions.
I do not believe that Hughesnet is being transparent. I do not buy that they can do what they want and we have no choice.
When members ask specifically about the "Hidden Network" no explaination is given.
The "supposed experts" on this forum also have no answers as to the "hidden network". They chose to attack members wanting to know what is going on. WHY?
I'll just leave it at that.....
MarkJFine wrote:
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I still don't understand what the furor over this is.
People get kind of edgy when something pops and they not only don't know what it's for, but can't control it, either. And, many people tend to immediately jump to the worst possible scenario, or what is worst to them, at least. Perhaps thinking it's there so "someone" can spy on them or their habits, or even glean personal information. Perhaps thinking it's there so their data can be secretly drained (you know that one's coming). Some people just get jumpy when it comes to things like this. That's nothing against those people, of course, just the reality of something like this. People take new things different ways.
With that said, it doesn't bother me.
I also checked my laptop today. Sure enough, it's there now that I have the new modem software. Whether every radio box is checked or unchecked, including the two under the main Advanced Wireless page, it's there.
Who knows, maybe it will enable them to offer some type of remote access tech service in the future, sort of like Microsoft is able to do if your system is having a hiccup and you enable them to do so. It could even be some future special radio access that only on site techs can utilize when troubleshooting the system. For those settings that customers shouldn't be tooling around in, or even looking at. Normally, I tend to imagine the beneficial possibilities instead of the others. :)
double post-- sorry
