RF – Frame by Frame

macOS Wi-Fi Roaming

One of the nice things about Intel wireless chipsets is that the drivers expose a lot of controls to help tune the chipset’s operation. One of my favorite of these controls is “Prefered Band,” which I usually adjust to instruct the chipset to prefer the 5 GHz band over the 2.4 GHz band. There areContinue reading “macOS Wi-Fi Roaming”

School 1:1 Program WLAN Design Considerations

The design of a WLAN to accommodate a school’s 1:1 program can make or break the entire enterprise. A poorly designed WLAN presents connectivity issues, bandwidth issues, co-channel contention, and RF utilization problems that distract end-users from classroom activities and results in a loss of trust in the technology. Similarly, clients with substandard Wi-Fi chipsetsContinue reading “School 1:1 Program WLAN Design Considerations”