VOIP solutions and video chat apps are part of our business and personal lives – and online multiplayer games have become mainstream hobbies. To enable these applications, huge volumes of data are being exchanged online at ever-more-massive rates. A delay in the transmission of data – i.e. latency – can have...

Today’s digital era puts our networks and the related network technology under extremely high pressure. With the explosion of mobile devices, HD video, gaming and IoT and cloud applications, the demand for high speeds in enterprise as well as residential local area networks (LAN) is soaring. But higher speeds often...

We need Wi-Fi everywhere! People are expecting whole-home coverage and if new features like fancy antennas or beamforming technology don’t cut it, strategically placing additional Wi-Fi gear in a home should increase the coverage area. However, after setting it all up, these secondary access points, repeaters and other equipment should...

Although Wi-Fi operates at different frequencies than the ones used by the DOCSIS system, many interference cases have been observed. Current cable modems typically have an embedded Wi-Fi Access Point and a small form factor, which means that the RF circuitry of the Wi-Fi subsystem and the DOCSIS subsystem are...

To check our Wi-Fi signal reception, we tend to look at the signal notification icon of our devices: the more bars, the better the signal. But more often than not, the amount of bars doesn’t give us a good indication of the quality of our connection. We’ve all had situations...

While most of us are using 802.11n devices or looking to replace them with 802.11n/ac devices, there are still some 802.11b clients wandering about. These old 802.11b devices can seriously impact the performance of our Wi-Fi networks on the 2.4 GHz band. How much? Let’s find out. How many old...