Cellular carriers and conventional telephone companies have latched on to public access wireless LANs as a cheap way of offering high-speed mobile data services to customers. VoiceStream Wireless Corp ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Whenever the word "performance" is mentioned, at least in a networking context, the first thought to come to mind is, of course, throughput. This is only natural - demands for throughput only grow ...

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 ...

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. It wasn't long ago that the average household had just one computer, ...

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 ...

If you are a Cisco wired network shop and also use Cisco’s thin-AP, controller-based wireless LANs, you can now apply wired Cisco security functions to your Wi-Fi traffic. Cisco last week said that ...