BT Smart Hub2 WiFi broadcasting without an SSID despite being turned off

[licquorice]

This thread is over 3 years old. It is not an 'issue' it is a deliberate design and is unlikely to change.

The reason has been stated many times in many threads.

[Trillian796]

My apologies, this is the first thread I found on this issue. Thank you for the information.

I will go look for the others.

Thanks again.

[licquorice]

The reason was given in message 5 of this thread. It is the backhaul do the complete WiFi discs. It is broadcast regardless of having the discs or not.

[Trillian796]

Thank you for the further explanation, saves me time looking into this more. My apologies again I didn't see the  particular page with message 5 on, when I read the thread before (not sure how I missed it !) 

So I didn't realise that this would be the case even when you don't have the 'Complete WIFI' disks. To my mind it is poor design and wasteful to have this happening regardless, but understand that it has been designed that way and there is nothing I can do about that. Makes my decision easy.

Again many thanks for your time.

[licquorice]

I have to agree it is a poor design, one of many with the BT hub ☹️

[bobpullen]

@Trillian796 - if your intent is to completely disable Wi-Fi on an EESH2, then that should be entirely possible (including the hidden backhaul SSIDs) by following the signposting in an earlier post.