Upon connecting to the Wi-Fi network after checking in to your hotel, you are disappointed by the extremely low signal strength in your room. Just…

For access points (APs) at my customer’s main site where the wireless controller (WLC) is located, local mode, Cisco’s implementation of a centralized WLAN architecture,…

We were in the stages of cleaning up configurations and preparing for customers to begin connecting to the new WLAN when I noticed that the…

My customer was already granting their end devices network access by means of 802.1X using EAP-TLS and certificates issued by an in-house managed PKI for…

This is a step-by-step guide with some of my own findings based on Cisco documentation, Generate CSR for Third-Party Certificates and Download Chained Certificates to…

Proper configuration of Transmit Power Control (TPC) settings can help to ensure that your Access Point (AP) does not speak too loudly. If your AP…

The 4-way handshake is a series of 4 EAPoL-Key frames that are used between a supplicant and authenticator station to validate compatible cipher suite selection and…

Andrew von Nagy of Revolution Wi-Fi created the SSID Overhead Calculator which demonstrates very well how overhead from beacon traffic can affect your Wi-Fi network.…

Admittedly, the formulas to convert between decibel-milliwatts (dBm) and milliwatts (mW) look a little intimidating…

An interframe space, or IFS for short, is part of a greater process which is used to avoid a collision with other frames…