The wireless LAN architecture blog

Keith Parsons is Managing Director of the Institute for Network Professionals. He holds 55 technical certifications (9 Wireless) and has earned an MBA from the Marriott School of Management. He is author (or editor) of 30+ technical publications and has developed eighttechnical industry and vendor...

Part 3 of 3 iPad 3 Wi-Fi Performance Analysis – Throughput Analysis (Graphical CDF Statistics) In the previous two posts –   iPad 3 Wi-Fi Reception Analysis – Transmit Power  and iPad 3 Wi-Fi Performance Analysis – Throughput – we talked about the differences in power and throughput between iPad...

Part 2 of 3: iPad 3 Wi-Fi Performance Analysis – Throughput Analysis (Simple Statistics) In the previous post, iPad 3 Wi-Fi Reception Analysis – Transmit Power, we discussed the raw Tx power between iPads and various other devices. In those results it looked like the iPad 1 trumped the iPad 2,...

This is a series of three posts – all concerning the variation and consistency of various Apple iPad models with respect to Wi-Fi Performance.In this first post, we’ll be focusing on just the output transmit power of the different devices. This is important because for accurate and consistent data...

Now and then I just need to react to things I might notice on someone's blog, or via a Twitter message. Anything about enterprise Wi-Fi seems to catch my eye. (OK, I also use Google to help trigger and send me items I might have missed). Hence another post for the #sillyquestion files. In this case...

I can understand why this question arises. The roll out of 5GHz Wi-Fi was a rocky one. First available in some countries, then not others. Then Europe got involved and required all Wi-Fi Access Points first look to see if there was any Radar being used on the channel. Then the UNII-2 band was...

I've been known to tell a joke that makes my children cringe every time it’s retold. They are convinced only people who are drunk, or totally naïve will ever laugh at it. So I'll run it past you: Two girl ostriches are pecking away at their food in the savannah one day. One of them looks up and sees...

In a previous post I asked a simple question about “What is an Access Point” - and in the end we concluded enterprise wireless Access Points look like a Bridge on the Wired side, and acts like a Hub on the Wireless side.  But there are lots of different types of Access Points – and they act...

Those of us who are parents have had lots of practice with answering the same question differently depending on who’s asking . . .  For example – when a 3-year-old asks to “go out and play with friends” – it means something entirely different than a 17-year-old using those exact same words. The...

As part of my ‘evangelist’ role here at Aerohive, I spend a lot of time with various groups talking about Wi-Fi. This is the first of a series of response to some frequently asked questions I hear all of the time.  Yes – my first reaction is always an offhand reaction, or to answer a question with a...

Many developers have tried to address the needs of network admins – some have developed individual apps focused on a single function. Others have tried to build groups of functions in a single app. These are useful reference apps – those things IT admins might want to have readily available. Many of...