With the public release of iOS 17 today, you can take advantage of some really useful Wi-Fi connection information exposed via shortcuts. Years ago, Apple stripped access to this data to 3rd party apps, buried it in Settings.app, and removed some of it entirely. This resulted in much gnashing of teeth for those of usContinue reading “Wi-Fi Info iOS Shortcut”
Author Archives: Jim Vajda
Data Rates are Dead
With the introduction of 802.11ax and its hundreds of new data rates, it’s time to start looking at the MCS Index to better understand link quality. Data rates are now too easy to misinterpret, particularly if, like me, you first learned about Wi-Fi in the days when the number of available data rates was smallContinue reading “Data Rates are Dead”
A Look at a Real World Thread Network
Thread is a fast growing wireless protocol for low power IoT networks. It’s a feature of Matter, which can also use BLE and Wi-Fi. Similar to Zigbee, Thread uses 802.15.4 for its PHY and MAC, but an important difference is that it uses 6LoWPAN for the network layer, so IPv6 addressing is used for allContinue reading “A Look at a Real World Thread Network”
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