wi-fi

• Article | 6/10/2011 WiFi users blissfully ignorant about real security, research finds

  New research conducted on behalf of the Wi-Fi Alliance shows that while wireless users are making strides on the security front, they’re still leaving...
• Article | 2/07/2011 Controlling Wi-Fi radio 'nap-time' reaps big power savings

  A Duke University grad student has come up with a way to double, or more, battery life in Wi-Fi devices, without any changes needed on the device itse...
• Article | 14/06/2011 Smartphone data plans: How to keep bandwidth usage in check

  I love my hometown of San Francisco. Great weather, great views, great food. But terrible radio. So when I'm driving, I've developed the habit of tuni...
• Article | 31/05/2011 Internode launches low cost 3G Wi-Fi modem

  Australian ISP Internode has launched a new battery-operated, portable 3G Wi-Fi modem, citing 'market demand' as the key driver for its release.
• Article | 6/05/2011 Skyhook wins early round in lawsuit against Google

  Skyhook Wireless will be allowed to go forward with its Massachusetts lawsuit against Google, charging the search giant with trying to muscle Skyhook'...

• Article | 29/07/2010 Troubleshoot sluggish or non-working Wi-Fi

  I'm a big fan of working at offsite locations--meaning my local Wi-Fi-equipped coffee shop. In fact, I'll often spend the afternoon hunkered down at P...
• Article | 11/05/2010 5 Tips for Pain-Free Wireless Home Networking

  Hair-pullingly bad experiences with wireless networking have led me to formulate Snyder's First Law of Home Networking: No matter who sells you the ro...
• Article | 14/12/2009 How to diagnose a bad Wi-Fi connection

  Network problems are the thorniest to resolve. They've been known to reduce my vocabulary to curses so strong they'd embarrass Quentin Tarantino.
• Article | 2/05/2009 Expand a small network with an Ethernet switch

  Most home-office networks start with a PC, a router, and a modem. But when a small single-user network grows into a larger multiuser network, your ori...
• Article | 12/02/2009 Find yourself on Google Latitude without GPS or a phone

  <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/tags/Google+Latitude.html">Google Latitude</a> is a useful--if slightly <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter...

• Article | 29/05/2010 Google Wi-Fi snooping should serve as security wakeup call

  The continuing saga of Google's wireless snooping and the maelstrom it's generated won't end anytime soon.
• Article | 19/05/2010 Google Wi-Fi data snooping: An FAQ

  Google is cleaning up its mess after the company says it mistakenly collecting browsing data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks as part of its Street Vi...
• Article | 20/01/2010 Free Wi-Fi hotspots in Australia

  Compared to the US and Europe, Australia doesn't have an abundance of free Wi-Fi hotspots.
• Article | 13/11/2009 What's next for Wi-Fi?

  The recent formal approval of the IEEE 802.11n wireless standard marks not the end but the start of a wave of Wi-Fi innovation. In the next three to f...
• Article | 11/09/2009 802.11n set for final approval

  Sometime on Friday, at the sprawling Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, N.J., an IEEE group called the Standards Board is expected to approve the 8...

Whitepapers about wi-fi

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  Service Level Assurance - Wireless Fidelity Achieved

  Before Wi-Fi protocol analyzers, administrators and consultants alike were only able to troubleshoot by continually reviewing the network design of and device operation within the network infrastructure. With the introduction of Wi-Fi protocol analyzers, these professionals had the equivalent of RF goggles. They could now see what was happening and could reactively troubleshoot problems. Read on.