All WiFi professional agrees on the best practice to limit the number of SSIDs which can cause massive overhead on the WLAN network. I have experience working specially in one company where common practice was to create SSID for every office in a multitenant site to provide different VLANs. It took me a while toRead more about SSIDS overhead effect on channel utilisation[…]

Question Time: I was quite confuse before I started my journey towards CWNE that why we have 802.11 states order as shown below. Why on the earth we have authentication before we successfully passed security. 802.11 Machine States: STA connecting to an open SSID. The summary of it all is as follows: STA is unauthenticatedRead more about Authentication Frame Misunderstanding[…]

The 802.11 standard ensures that all stations, both radio-based network interface cards (NICs) and access points, implement access methods for sharing the air medium. When installing wireless LANs (WLAN), most people don’t give much thought to these mechanisms. A solid understanding of 802.11’s medium access methods, however, will enable you to deal more effectively withRead more about 802.11 Deferral Process (Medium Access Method)[…]