Wireless LAN Professionals

I solve my hardest Wi-Fi design problems in the shower. Not at the desk. Not in the spreadsheet. In the shower, on a walk, or in that half-asleep minute before the alarm goes off. After 25 years of designing wireless networks, I trust that pattern more than I trust most of my whiteboard sessions.

There is a brain-science post going around right now that says I am no...

The heat map you hand a client is two different things at once. Where your survey points sit close together, it is real data. Where they sit far apart, it is the software guessing between them. Same map, same colors, same confident gradient. The reader cannot tell which parts are measured and which parts are interpolation. You can, because you walked it. So the quality of tha...

Two numbers decide how far a 6 GHz cell reaches, and the transmit power on the access point’s spec sheet is neither of them. The first is the channel width, because in 6 GHz the width sets the power ceiling. The second is the client’s own ceiling, which sits below the access point’s and carries the harder half of the link. Settle the width, then size the cell to the client. D...

You do not need to read the 30-tip viral thread. There are about a dozen Google privacy settings worth your time, every one of them real, and you can change them in an afternoon. Turn off the three Activity Controls, set auto-delete to 3 months, delete the history you have already piled up, kill ad personalization and voice retention, and tighten a couple of phone permiss...

The most-shared phone battery thread of the season has the single most important setting backwards. It tells you to turn OFF “5G Auto” to save your battery. 5G Auto is the battery-saver. Apple built it to fall back to LTE on its own whenever 5G adds nothing, which is most of the time. The thread’s villain is the actual hero. That is the problem with viral battery tips: one or...