Lee Badman's *Mostly* Wi-Fi Blog- opinions are my own, and I speak only for me.
Where to start? I’m a Wi-Fi geezer, one of those old guys who have been doing wireless networking literally since before some of our newest ranks have been born. That means two things here: 1. I have seen a lot of lunacy out of the IEEE 802.11 working groups, the Wi-Fi Alliance, and the WLAN […]
Here I sit in the Phoenix Airport with time to kill and my mind full o’ stuff from the last few days spent at this year’s Wireless LAN Professionals Conference (aka WLPC, aka Keithapalooza). Naturally, my session “Go Open or Go Home” won the Golden Yagi Award, and my sexy was pegged when I laid down the […]
I’m a Wi-Fi geezer. I’ve been doing Wi-Fi at scale since the days of the Cisco 340 and 350 access points. I’ve been doing it so long that EXCITING NEW STANDARDS bore the living piss outta me with their hype and disconnection from the real world of crappy client devices. There is nothing standard about […]
Wi-Fi has been transformational to society. So has cellular. And satellite. No news here, but over the last few days I’ve been truly appreciating Bluetooth, and the reason why needs a little backstory. Stupid is as stupid does I’m getting to the point in my life where old injuries are coming back to remind me […]
We network people spend a lot of time dealing with protocols like the TCP/IP suite… there’s no escaping it. But yesterday I found myself contemplating another kind of IP. Alas, I dropped my phone into our swimming pool. Suddenly I was face to face with Ingress Protection ratings, aka IP. Before we go down that […]
You won’t find another networking niche where seeing the energy on the medium is so important, nor will you find handier all-in-one highly portable Wi-Fi tools than those from NetAlly. When you want a single compact tool that can do just about everything you could need in a Wi-Fi environment, the NetAlly AirCheck G3 is […]
Having spent almost eight hours with Nile’s senior technical leadership to get more familiar with the company’s unique approach to LAN and WLAN, I can say upfront that I appreciate the ambition and effectiveness of the solution. You will not find a framework that more effectively tackles design challenges like VLAN management and network security […]
For various reasons, I’ve found myself bumping into LoRaWAN as a wireless networking construct over the last couple of years. If you’re not familiar, this is IoT-oriented low power, long range (sometimes), low bandwidth kind of stuff that integrates with the larger connected world if needed via Ethernet, Wi-Fi or cellular backhaul. (Read more on […]
In the past few years, Synology has upped their game when it comes to video surveillance. Long established as a NAS leader, Synology’s Surveillance Station and companion apps have been expanding the company into the IP security video space with the same well-designed approach that has made their network storage solutions extremely popular. Now, a […]
I was hanging out at Eagle Creek Reservoir near Indianapolis, doing some birding. I had my beloved Canon 90D set up with a big lens and I was waiting for anything interesting to fly over as I stood on the deck looking out over the water. Out of nowhere this huge clap of thunder sounded, […]