CPE710 P2P setup - hiding AP's SSID
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Hiya,
I've been using a pair of CPE510's in Maxtream mode of a couple of years now to connect my house to my garden office and I've just bought a pair of CPE710s to replace them (so I can take advantage of the gigabit NIC). Okay - I should have done my homework - the 710 does not support Maxtream. Not that I really need it for performance reasons - it was just nice to have the connection "hidden" from other devices (as Maxtream uses a proprietary protocol).
I want to do much the same with the 710s so I thought I'd try turning off SSID broadcast on the AP and connecting manually. I've got them set up fine as P2P using the standard installation instructions but as soon as I untick the "Broadcast SSID" box on the AP, the connection to the client breaks.
Other devices that I've used have allowed connection to APs with hidden SSIDs, for example, TP-Link and GL-iNet travel routers, so have I just made a schoolboy error somewhere? If it's not possible I suppose I could I simply put in a MAC address filter so only the client 710 can connect but I'd rather have an neater solution and an "invisible" AP.
Thanks!
Ades
