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Ekahau Now Offers 0% Financing!
Zero % Financing is now available on Ekahau Connect Bundles and Ekahau Sidekicks On April 6th 2021, Ekahau announced a new way one can purchase their Ekahau Bundle. This Ekahau Connect Suite includes: Ekahau Sidekick hardware – for Spectrum Analysis, Survey data...
QoS Management and Wi-Fi Alliance | An Interview with Consuelo Ortiz
Keith sat down to catch up with Consuelo Ortiz about the latest updates from Wi-Fi Alliance - specifically about QoS. Want to find if a particular product is certified with the latest Wi-Fi Alliance updates? Check out their Product Finder Tool. Be sure to follow Wi-Fi...
Juniper/Mist #NFD24
I attended Networking Field Day 24… but with my Wireless LAN hat on! Mist is one of the great new up-and-coming vendors in the Wireless LAN space who has been purchased by Juniper Networks. I personally don’t have much experience with Juniper’s data center or even...
Wi-Fi Monitoring with NetBeez #NFD24
The folks at NetBeez have been presenting at Gestalt IT events since 2015... and I’ve watched them all, see: https://netbeez.net/ I’ve been impressed with their simple, yet powerful technology – taking low cost hardware, coupled with software built to solve actual...
[Interview] Introducing nOversight with Ben Toner
Keith interviews Ben Toner of Numerous Networks about their new product nOversight. Click on the links above to check out what Numerous Networks is all about and to download a copy of the tool.Transcripts Keith (00:00):Welcome. Hello. My name is Keith Parsons and...
[Interview] Soiltech Wireless Solutions for Farmers
Keith has a fascinating interview with Ehsan Soltan of Soiltech Wireless on how they are helping farmers monitor the soil moisture in their crops in real time using wireless technology specifically CAT-M1, and NB-IOT. Check out Soiltech Wireless HERE More information...
[Interview] Panos Vouzis of NetBeez talks iPerf2 vs iPerf3
Panos Vousiz from NetBeez stopped by to talk about the differences between iPerf2 and iPerf3 a deeper dive from his #WLPC 2020 Phoenix presentation. Read more from Panos at netbeez.net/blog
[Interview] Creative Solution for Home Office Latency Issues
Keith spoke with George Ou on a creative solution he came up with for executives at his company who were dealing with latency due to too many users on the homeWi-Fi. With some basic gear anyone can get on Amazon and a little set up this might be a solution worth...
A Special Announcement from Aruba and Celona
An Aruba and Celona partnership opens up some significant opportunities for Enterprise Networks Keith talks at length with Mehmet Yavuz of Celona and Chuck Lukaszewski of Aruba to talk about a new partnership between Celona and Aruba and some of the benefits this will...
What Problem is UWB Trying to Solve with Stephen Cooper
What specific situations would UWB be helpful in? We continue with our breakdown of UWB with Stephen Cooper looking at what problems exactly does UWB try to solve.
How Do I Design Wi-Fi for a Building I don’t Have Access To?
Do a predictive because you don't have access to the building yet. And a lot of times we don't have access to a building we can just get a floor plans and we don't know what the building materials can be made of. So we're gonna have to make some educated guesses.
How to use ScreenFlow to make YouTube Videos
ScreenFlow has become a favorite tool at Wireless LAN Professionals to help us create our daily posts. Here's a quick tutorial showing you how it's done so you can create your own YouTube tutorials, demos, or explainer videos for your customers, peers, or to build...
More Details on our Recent AP and Client Testing with Ferney
We are finally doing the field test. In today's video, we're doing client testing Jordan High School in Utah in the United States.
What is Ultra-Wideband (UWB)? with Stephen Cooper
So what is ultra wide band? It is not Verizon 5GB Ultra Wide Band that they're marketing at the moment. You'll see this come up a lot. There's a lot of Google search ads popping up. They're prioritizing Verizon's marketing for 5Ghz ultra wideband. Let's just build...
Why You Shouldn’t Hang APs on the Wall Like a Clock
There are some good reasons why your AP needs to hang on the ceiling, not the wall Wi-Fi is so resilient even when you don't follow best practices it still works - BUT you are paying a price when you hang APs incorrectly. Let's look at why. Transcripts Don't hang...
Can I Extract Diagnostic Wi-Fi Data in macOS Through the API?
Can we make an API call to extract this data from a MacBook?
Lights, Camera, Action | How to Look Better on Zoom
You've heard this before, lights, camera, action. . . and I think we all should add a little bit about sound in there as well. In today's video, I'm going to give you some tips and hints on how to look better on Zoom.
Which Spectrum Analyzer Is The Best? It Depends
Today we're going to talk about spectrum analyzer comparisons. In today's video, we're talking about the comparisons between different spectrum analyzers, spectrum analyzers are a hardware tool that lets you visualize something you can't see with your human eyes.
Why I Love Wi-Fi Signal And Use It All The Time
Today we're going to talk about Wi-Fi signal. Wi-fi signal is one of the tools that I use, at least daily, a couple of times a day for years now.
Do You Have a Wired or Wireless Problem?
Wired or wireless? How to quickly narrow down if you have a Wi-Fi problem. In this video, we're going to share a little bit of information how you might be able to help your customers see whether or not it is truly a Wi-Fi problem.
Is there any relation between MCS and Transmit Power?
Is there a relationship between MCS and transmit power? Kind of... And the question goes on to say, "Some vendors publish dependent's MCS, transmit power, receive sensitivity data sheets and you can go look those up..."
Document Everything
A friendly reminder to document everything. In today's little video, Keith shares another Wireless Lan design tip. If you are asked to design and deploy a WLAN you know is going to fail, document, document, document!
Understand How Capacity REALLY Works
It is not what you think... One assumption leads to another assumption, leading to more assumptions... then we have Capacity? Really?
Meet ALL Requirements
Meet all your requirements. Not just primary coverage, not just secondary or code channel interference.
Choose APs BEFORE Design
Always choose the APs before you start designing. The reason you need to do before, is there is such a huge difference in access points.
Is there a way to get an MCS value off of a Windows Device?
Is there any way to get MCS value off of a Windows 10 device or Windows seven or Windows XP or whatever you want to go to? And the answer is no, sorry.
Always Validate, Always!
Always, always, always, always validate what you're doing. Now, there's a lot of different ways you can go through validation. You could do an AP on a stick. When you do an AP on a stick, you actually put in AP up on a tripod.
Do NOT use Marketing Ratios
Don't follow marketing ratios This is one that I really. I just going to say it right out. Don't do it. Don't follow marketing ratios, they're not engineering, they're purely marketing.
Follow Best Practices
Now how do you know what the best practices are? In today's training video, we're going to talk about following best practices because if you follow them, usually, most of the time you'll have a much more efficient Wi-Fi.
How to Make Wi-Fi Go Faster
Let's find out how to make Wi-Fi go faster. In today's video, we compare how we made Ethernet go faster and whatever work there might help us make our Wi-Fi go faster.