Wireless LANs were once seen as the easy alternative to the wired LAN. After all, they weren't used for primary network access and they didn't have to be eternally stable or particularly far-reaching.

The present and future of enterprise wireless networking stirred up interest at the NetWorld+Interop conference here, with vendors presenting systems for existing and planned WLAN (wireless LAN) ...

Well, a network is a group of computer systems connected to share resources and communicate. It is also a collection of devices and computers linked together via transmission media and communication ...

In the modern office environment, each worker is equipped with a personal computer with its own processor and multiple disk drives. The computer may be free-standing (very much the exception these ...

This excerpt is from Chapter 10 Wireless LANs from the book Hacking for Dummies written by Kevin Beaver and published by Wiley Publishing. You can download the entire ...

Wireless LANs are finally venturing out of their vertical market niches and into mainstream business environments. But they pose some special deployment challenges when compared with their wired ...

Last week I began discussing a few recent industry efforts to render wireless LANs up to the task of reliably supporting VoIP phone calls. Among the issues: latency, security, emergency calling, and ...

Colubris Networks, a manufacturer of secure WLAN routers, has added IPSec and L2TP support to its CN1050 range of secure Wireless LAN Routers in an attempt to address security concerns relating to the ...

You're already online--that much is obvious. Now you're probably ready to make the move to wireless. You've spent a fortune building up a small office network, but already it's nearly obsolete: To ...

Wi-Fi signals are everywhere, did you ever want to know where they are coming from? NetStumbler, short for Network Stumbler, will let you easily detect Wireless LAN networks around you, using the ...

CNET.com.au's step-by-step guide to using a wireless router to share an Internet connection and build a wireless network at home. It wasn't long ago that the average household had just one computer, ...

A local-area network (LAN) connects the computer hardware in a localized area such as an office or home. Typically, LANs use wired connections to link the computers to each other and to a variety of ...