With Wireless LANs becoming mainstream, organizations want to tightly integrate Wireless LANs with wired LANs. Network managers are reluctant or unwilling to deploy Wireless LANs unless those LANs ...

Last week I began discussing a few recent industry efforts to render wireless LANs up to the task of reliably supporting VoIP phone calls. Among the issues: latency, security, emergency calling, and ...

As we explained in Lesson four, wireless computer networks are becoming a major part of the networking market. This is true not only for residences, but also for commercial installations. The wireless ...

Well, a network is a group of computer systems connected to share resources and communicate. It is also a collection of devices and computers linked together via transmission media and communication ...

This excerpt is from Chapter 10 Wireless LANs from the book Hacking for Dummies written by Kevin Beaver and published by Wiley Publishing. You can download the entire ...

Stuart Okin and Ian Hellen at Microsoft UK give their opinion on how different forms of data encryption can protect wireless Lan users and corporate data from unwelcome snoopers After more than a ...

The combination of wireless LANs and IP-based telephony has forever changed the definition of mobile phones and how they’re used in the enterprise. Today, a wireless voice-over-IP (VoIP) phone ...

Wireless local area network adapters are add-on devices that enable you to connect to wireless networks like at the office or hotel. These adapters can be added to either desktop or laptop computers, ...

For the past few weeks, I’ve been locked in various dark rooms (OK, it’s not as bad as that) performing benchmark tests on a number of wireless LAN systems. Some of the products tested were ...

Jim lives on an island off the coast of Florida where virtually nobody is interested in information technology. To compensate for that, Jim frequently goes on the road to meet with vendors and ...

Most modern computers include a wireless network card, which you use to connect to wireless networks in your office, on the road or at home. If your computer doesn't have one, you can potentially ...

CNET.com.au's step-by-step guide to using a wireless router to share an Internet connection and build a wireless network at home. Locating local internet providers It wasn't long ago that the average ...