4 tips for makin’ apps fly across a WLAN

Enterprise users accessing corporate applications across a wireless net don’t have to suffer from performance problems. That there’s nothing to be done about sluggish application response and latency over a wireless LAN is a misconception –unfortunately, a common one, says David Newman, a Network World Test Alliance partner and president of Network Test. “People say, ‘It’s just wireless; what do you expect?’ In fact,” he says, “wireless LANs can be made to perform quite well, but it does involve thinking some about network design.” Other wireless experts agree, and have some pretty simple-to-follow guidelines for optimizing wireless nets. Read more