Turn off Fonera private signal MyPlace
Sunday, June 15, 2008 – 11:22 (UTC)In these days I’m playing a little bit with my shiny Fonera, trying to switch off the private signal. The main reason is that I already have a Linksys router, with DD-WRT firmware, which broadcasts my private signal, along with a second open SSID with limited internet access (only web, mail and IM) for guests (yes, I believe in a world full of joy and hope).
Searching through tons of webpages I’ve found that if you want to disable your private signal you can choose between:
- COMPLETELY DISABLE PRIVATE SIGNAL: go to the onboard Fonera administration page and put as private SSID a single blank space. Then, reboot the Fonera and your private signal will vanish. If you want to make some changes to the configuration after having turned off the MyPlace, you still have your web administration available at Fon webpages, or you can connect to the Fonera through the LAN side using the usual 169 IP address. If you still want another way to access the admin pages a third option is available: reset your Fonera.
- SWITCH OFF PRIVATE SSID BROADCAST, BUT KEEP PRIVATE SIGNAL ACTIVE: you should go to the Fon website, and put the word OFF as SSID. Your private signal will survive, but its SSID broadcast will be switched off.
I don’t know why, but Fon still doesn’t provide us with good and customizable firmwares, and in any case does not say how to do this kind of simple and useful configurations, so we are forced to customize the Fonera using some tricks…
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3 Responses to “Turn off Fonera private signal MyPlace”
Useful post, thank you. If I turn off SSID broadcast with the second method, what will be my private SSID? Name “OFF”? Or the name which was before?
By Kum Gabor
on September 10, 2008 - 14:40
@Kum: Hi! If you turn off SSID broadcast (2nd method), it should stay the same as before, but it will not be visible with a wireless scan.
By Stefano Testi
on September 10, 2008 - 20:02
Thank you.
By Kum Gabor
on September 11, 2008 - 18:12