It's an exciting time to be in the Wi-Fi industry with the market continuing to grow and the promise of new standards, technologies, and use cases expanding....

Back in 2010, I was working at a large defense contractor as an RF Engineer sitting in a cubicle day after day when I decided I wanted to make a change. I wa...

How to determine where to place Access Points depends on network requirements and careful analysis of the RF environment. As someone with a MSEE with a focus...

Aruba Central is a cloud-based network management solution that offers built-in analytics and configuration/monitoring of Aruba Networks' access points, swit...

Source: LifeHacker and others. Myth Theory Radio reception is maximized when both the Access Point and client (laptop, smartphones, tablets, etc.) have match...

This is the first of a series, which intends to debunk widely publicized statements about Wi-Fi networks. Myth Theory Most wireless routers default to channe...

As a primer reading our section on What's a decibel? is recommended. How can you convert dBm to mW, and vice versa, easily? When working in decibels, the rul...

A decibel is a logarithmic unit used to express a ratio between two values. The decibel is used to conveniently represent very large or small values and allow...

The Holy Grail of Wi-Fi parameters, signal strength is considered as one of the most important design goal to meet. With the proliferation of high density de...

Even the best designed network can be taken down by interference and noise. If signal strength, channel overlap, and other Wi-Fi parameters appear fine, then...

On February 24th, 2016, I presented the Importance of Spectrum Analysis for Wi-Fi Design at the 2016 WLAN Pros Conference (WLPC). The presentation relates sp...

Attenuation is an important physical property that all Wi-Fi designers need to be aware of to avoid dead spots, or more common today, using the wall loss as ...