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Working at Home: A Wi-Fi, H1N1, Family Survival Guide
Nov. 16, 2009
CIO.com's ultimate guide to surviving the 2009 holiday season: How to visit family and reconnect with old friends and still get done all that work while out of the office.

Windows 7 Netbooks Find a Home on AT&T's 3G Network
Nov. 16, 2009
AT&T announces that it is making its 3G wireless service available for two new Windows 7 netbooks.

Thanks Google, But Airport Wi-Fi Should Always Be Free
Nov. 11, 2009
Google's getting more than the usual amount of attention this week for sponsoring free airport Wi-Fi during the holiday season. And rightfully so: During a long layover, no one wants to fire up their laptop and Web ...

T-Mobile adds a free 3G stick, cuts prices
Nov. 11, 2009
T-Mobile USA doubled down on 3G (third-generation) data Wednesday, introducing a second USB dongle for laptops and lowering prices for the end-of-year holiday season.

Google's Free Airport Wi-Fi: 5 Ways to Protect Yourself
Nov. 10, 2009
Free Wi-Fi while you're waiting for your flight? Sounds like a great way to save money, and kudos to Google for offering it at many U.S. airports during the holidays. Unfortunately, Google's generosity may also lure ...

Google offers free Wi-Fi in US airports during the holidays
Nov. 10, 2009
Hoping to bring holiday cheer to harried travelers, Google is footing the bill for Wi-Fi access at 47 U.S. airports through mid-January, so that people can connect free to the Internet while they wait at airline gates ...

Free Wi-Fi Wars: Google vs. Microsoft vs. Yahoo
Nov. 10, 2009
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are all trying to be the better Santa Claus this holiday season, offering free Wi-Fi in a variety of venues.

Google Gives Wi-Fi Away at 47 US Airports for Holidays
Nov. 10, 2009
Call it an early holiday gift from Google to millions of airline passengers. Google said will be offering free Wi-Fi to travelers across the United States starting Tuesday at 47 airports. Google says the Wi-Fi will be ...

Two out of five at risk from Wi-Fi hijacking
Oct. 21, 2009
Two out of five web users are at risk of having their Wi-Fi connection hijacked, says TalkTalk.

Extreme turns to Motorola for WLAN future
Oct. 21, 2009
Extreme Networks on Wednesday announced a new set of enterprise wireless LAN products based on Motorola technology as part of a broader partnership that will also produce a unified control system for both wired and ...

Wireless and mobile how-to's

Wireless Wizards - Our weekly wireless advice column.

Wireless Wizards
Jan. 22, 2009
Network World Fusion's exclusive weekly wireless how-to column.

About the Wireless Wizards
Jun. 12, 2003
Bios of the authors

About the Wireless Wizards
Jun. 12, 2003
Bios of the authors

Getting a wireless card to work again
Jan. 08, 2007
Two weeks ago, I installed a wireless connection on my laptop. The day I set things up, everything worked fine. I shut the system down and the next evening fired it up again to find that i have a connection to the ...

Linux drivers for wireless network cards
Sep. 26, 2005
Where can I find Linux hardware drivers for my USB wireless network adapter?

Wireless switch opinions

Enterprise WLANs: The kinder, gentler shakeout
Apr. 26, 2004
As wireless LAN start-up after WLAN start-up emerged to take on the enterprise over the past 18 months, observers realized that a few years down the line, they wouldn't all be around. There was simply a limit to the ...

I need you! (For advice and guidance)
Apr. 12, 2004
There's an old proverb that you should never give advice unless asked. I'll leave you to ponder the wisdom of that adage while I ask for your advice - and your involvement. I'm working on two upcoming events where your ...

Putting the 'enterprise' into wireless LANs
Apr. 12, 2004
As wireless LANs have rocketed into the consciousness of corporate managers in the past year or so, existing and prospective vendors in that space have been quick to point out how not to build a WLAN. Stay away, they ...

What will rate in 2008?
Dec. 03, 2007
It's time to look into the crystal ball to see what exciting products will be coming your way next year.

Tolly: Security, SMB-tailored offerings and China all a big part of 2007
Jan. 03, 2007
Because The Tolly Group's primary focus is to help vendors show what their offerings can do, it's a pretty good bet that what came through our labs in the latter part of 2006 could be showing up on your to-do list ...

The buzz from Boston
Jul. 21, 2003
The fact that I could attend two trade shows in the same week certainly says something about what has been happening. Smaller is better seems to be the mantra these days. Shows that focus on specific technologies seem ...

Is Juniper out shopping?
Feb. 02, 2005
Ever since Cisco acquired wireless LAN switch maker Airespace three weeks ago, speculation has swirled about how router rival Juniper Networks might respond.

Dec. 12, 2005 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Dec. 08, 2005
Skip Links Go to page content Go to site-wide navigation Go to Contact Us page Dec. 12, 2005 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Network World , 12/08/2005 Click Here Share/Email Comment Print GOOD: Battery ...

Wireless networking
Jun. 04, 2001
My company is expanding and we're adding additional offices into an older building that we have been in for several years. Several areas of the building have solid concrete walls. Running wiring to these additional ...

More packets, more decodes
Nov. 12, 2001
As promised, this week we'll look at AiroPeek from WildPackets, a tool designed specifically for capturing, storing, analyzing and reporting on 802.11b wireless systems.

Holiday Wi-Fi warning as obvious as Santa's beard
Dec. 08, 2006
For the love of St. Nicholas, do not let anyone hang holiday decorations willy-nilly about the workplace lest you render the office Wi-Fi net as discombobulated as Santa's sleigh without Rudolph.

A giant step for enterprise wireless LANs
Sep. 04, 2006
Fixed-mobile convergence has been touted for years. At times it sounds more like science fiction than practical business solution. There is, nonetheless, reason to take another look. The key components finally are ...

Wireless and the great indoors
Apr. 17, 2006
With mobile phone service available in more than 210 countries, blanketing most major cities, you might think rural areas are the top priority for extending wireless coverage. You would be wrong. There is an urgent need ...

Is network innovation dead?
Oct. 18, 2004
Is there any innovation in the network marketplace anymore? There's a thundering silence as compared with a few short years ago, when every time you turned around there was a new protocol, a new product addressing unmet ...

Site surveys are still needed
Sep. 20, 2004
Site surveys are still a useful tool for risk management in enterprise wireless LAN deployments where business-critical applications such as wireless VoIP require carefully planned coverage and capacity.

Site surveys are no longer needed
Sep. 20, 2004
Site surveys have no relation to real-world performance. They're relics of a time when access points were expensive, so it made sense to optimize for coverage.

Ulfelder unplugged, Part 2
Aug. 09, 2004
Our hero swaps his undies for a clown suit - and gets his WLAN up and running.

Ulfelder unplugged, Part 1
Jul. 26, 2004
Columnist sets out to install a wireless network, finds self shivering in his underwear.

An overlay approach is better than using a unified WLAN
May. 10, 2004
An overlay results in no logical or physical changes to the wired LAN and is more secure, less disruptive and more cost-effective than the unified access approach.

A unified WLAN approach is better than an overlay
May. 10, 2004
Adopting a unified strategy allows you to upgrade your edge switches using software while buying incremental hardware upgrades as needed to deal with future scalability and new application requirements.

Start-up looks to solve WLAN RF problems
May. 10, 2004
Some early wireless LAN users say their largest source of headaches is radio frequency problems, everything from interference to playing with radio locations to optimize performance. Start-up Propagate Networks hopes to ...

The latest from the Cool Tools zone
Mar. 01, 2004
Mini-reviews of the Gateway DVD Recorder, ZyAir's B-220 Wireless LAN USB Stick and AVerMedia's TVBox 9

A walk on the WLAN wild side
Jan. 19, 2004
Among other things over the recent Christmas break, I read Michael Crichton's techno-thriller Prey about malevolent technology and also got involved in testing proprietary, high-speed wireless LANs. The former is (no ...

Will Wi-Max make Wi-Fi obsolete?
Jan. 12, 2004
What is Wi-Max? Is it going to make my investment in Wi-Fi obsolete?

RF prediction vs. site surveys
Jan. 05, 2004
What's the difference between an RF prediction and a site survey? Are different wireless LAN deployments better suited for one or the other?

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