Have you ever wondered that why home modems or routers are not as good as enterprise grade access points? Answer to this question seems to be obvious that enterprise access point is a very expensive piece of hardware as compare to home CPEs (customer premises equipment). But still few questions come to mind…. what isRead more about Home modem/router performance[…]
Recently Ekahau has announced Ekahau university which provides different type of training and professional certifications. They have also announced ECSE design course for new and old Engineers. Good thing is if you are ECSE and want to have ECSE design then you can do transition with online training and without having to pay for theRead more about Ekahau ECSE Transition to ECSE design[…]
Metageek has launched Wi-Spy Air and Air Viewer mobile app which is the fast, portable and accurate way to validate and troubleshoot WiFi environments. Level up your iOS or Android device with Wi-Spy Air’s onboard WiFi chipset, transforming it into a professional grade WiFi troubleshooting tool. Wi-Spy is good handy tool for the engineers who wishRead more about Wi-Spy Air[…]
There is a lot of hype going around 5G since its announced, there is discussion going on social media whether 5G is going to impact Wi-Fi. The 5G standard promises mobile connectivity at high speed. Theoretically it can give faster and better user experience. So, I decided to write what I think about this wholeRead more about Wi-Fi vs 5G[…]
Telecommunication and cable companies marketing about whole home Wi-Fi experience. Buy Wi-Fi from us and we going to give you this super modem or access point which is going to cover your whole house with Wi-Fi signals. Same time now all the major players using enterprise 802.11s technology to use mesh to provide coverage inRead more about Home environment WiFi challanges[…]
One of the main issues in home environments is location of the router. Most probably service providers bring the connection inside the house from the street to the first accessible room. Due to the characteristics of the RF placement of WiFi device in one corner of the room does not help. Imagine a light bulbRead more about Home Routers location[…]
I would like to discus quick few tips which might protect your privacy and keep your home network safe. Secure your Wireless router/modem: Its a common practice that when our service provider sends us home router, We just follow instructions given by the service provider and connect to modem. Though service providers are nowRead more about Protecting Your Privacy[…]
Wireshark has two filtering languages: One used when capturing packets, and one used when displaying packets. These display filters are already been shared by clear to send . It was shared as image file so I decided add different filters together and type here so people can just copy paste the filters instead having to typeRead more about Wireshark Display Filters[…]
WLAN Topologies AKA Service Sets: I would like to talk about WLAN topologies or service sets which are not difficult to but very important to understand. 802.11 defines different topologies or service sets. BSS (Basic service set) ESS (Extended service set) IBSS (Independent basic service set) MBSS (Mesh basic service set) QBSS (QOS basic serviceRead more about 802.11 Topologies AKA Service Sets[…]