Your Wi-Fi name leaks more about you than your IP address ever could.

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 ...

Seems like every guide to securing your wireless network tells you to keep your SSID from broadcasting to make your network more secure, but is that really worthwhile? Let's take a look at one of the ...

Earlier today, Ars IT editor Sean Gallagher was doing some scary things with wireless when he discovered someone probing for a Wi-Fi network with a name that appeared to be something un-parseable. I ...

Busted! A Wi-Fi snooping Google Street View car. This summer it was revealed that Google Street View cars, besides taking photos of your neighborhood, were also collecting the street addresses, Wi-Fi ...

An service set identifier, or network name, is a unique, alphanumeric ID attached to a wireless local area network. The first time you set up your NETGEAR router, the device will assign to the network ...

I have walked about with both a laptop and some iOS devices and it seems to have no trouble handing off between the main router and the extender. Any snafus to be aware of? The extender wifi is slower ...

Network Job Solutions – The wireless access points operate as bridges with no routing defined anywhere on the wireless network segment. All VLANs are defined on the wired switches and mapped with ...

Wireless connections are becoming a popular way for computers to connect to networks and the Internet, as an employee can connect to either from anywhere within the range of the signal. Using wireless ...