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802.11 performance tuning - from 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

802.11 Wireless Networks
The de facto standard for wireless networking is the 802.11 protocol, which includes Wi-Fi (the wireless standard known as 802.11b) and its faster cousin, 802.11g. With easy-to-install 802.11 network hardware available everywhere you turn, the choice seems simple, and many people dive into wireless computing with less thought and planning than they'd give to a wired network. But it's wise to be familiar with both the capabilities and risks associated with the 802.11 protocols. 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition will help get you started.

In this chapter: Your network's performance "out of the box" is probably fairly poor,even if no one but you notices. Changing the physical environment (by experimenting with access point placement, external antennas, etc.) may alleviate some problems, but others may best be resolved by tuning administrative parameters. This chapter discusses some of the administrative parameters that can tuned to improve the behavior of your wireless network.

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Excerpted from 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Matthew S. Gast (ISBN: 0-596-10052-3).

Copyright © 2005 Matthew S. Gast. All rights reserved.

This was first published in March 2006

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