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”
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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”
WLPC 2023: Wi-Fi 6 in the Wild
In this brief WLPC Phoenix talk I presented some surprising real-world data gathered from 7SIGNAL Sapphire Eye and Mobile Eye on the major new features in Wi-Fi 6, 1024 QAM, OFDMA, and 6 GHz.
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