It used to be the case that the ability to communicate wirelessly was a unique specialty among computing systems. These days it is rapidly becoming an expected feature, something that is assumed. An ...

The latest update to the Wi-Fi protocol standard, 802.11ax, has been designed to transmit data even faster, to better negotiate bandwidth among several computers and other devices connected to a ...

Anyone developing wireless LAN (WLAN) systems knows the security problem created by the wired equivalency protocol (WEP). The bigger issue designers must wrestle with is how to solve the problems ...

Why has 802.11 flourished while Bluetooth has essentially failed? Should we even care about Bluetooth? The crux of the problem is that 802.11 represents the Internet and Bluetooth represents the faux ...

The 802.11e standard, according to the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance, uses a combination of Resource Reservation Protocol and prioritized queuing based on marking traffic by application ...

Wi-Fi is everywhere and we can’t really do without it. But the current-gen Wi-Fi standard is limited to data transfer between devices, and with every new iteration, we just see better speeds and ...

In response to reader requests for a refresher in basic wireless LAN operations, I’ll finish up a discussion I began last time of 802.11 WLAN channel assignments and user access. Some of you have ...

The standard offers theoretical speeds ranging from 6.5 Mbps to 866.7 Mbps. There is always another standard coming. This one focused on high throughput wireless networks. It is the IEEE standard ...

Two security organizations have issued alerts warning of a flaw in wireless LAN equipment based on the 802.11b Wi-Fi standard that leaves the devices vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DoS) jamming ...

The Wi-Fi Alliance branded its next-generation 802.11ah wireless protocol as Wi-Fi HaLow(Opens in a new window). It is targeted at the Internet of Things (IoT), which includes the smart home, ...

Researchers at Belgium's KU Leuven discovered a fundamental design flaw in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard that gives attackers a way to trick victims into connecting with a less secure wireless ...

A device based on the 802.11 protocol that is used to add desktop computers and printers in remote locations to the network without having to string cables or equip each one with a Wi-Fi adapter.