Wireless LANs were once seen as the easy alternative to the wired LAN. After all, they weren't used for primary network access and they didn't have to be eternally stable or particularly far-reaching.

Deciding if wireless local-area network (WLAN) technology is right for your agency will depend primarily on your potential wireless applications and the characteristics of your user base, according to ...

Mar. 3 -- Editor's Note: PC Magazine has partnered with Wiley Books to create a series of PC Magazine and ExtremeTech books. In PC Magazine's Guide to Home Networking Contributing Editor, networking ...

It's been two years since I wrote "The six dumbest ways to secure a wireless LAN," and it's probably been one of my more successful blog entries ever, with two flashes on Digg. Since that time, I've ...

A new service providing Net access via wireless LAN on airplanes is set to launch in December. That's what some companies say -- but nobody talked to U.S. regulators. Reporter Elisa Batista talks with ...

Your first step should be to figure out how much capacity you need and where it will be needed. In many cases, just getting APs to cover your office isn't all that difficult -- the challenge is to ...

I've been covering wireless LAN technology since I was on top of a Goddard Space Flight Center office building on a snowy day trying to make a T1 (1.544 Mbps) hook-up over a jury-rigged point-to-point ...

Mesh networks allow deployment of large-scale wireless nets without having to physically link every access point back to the wired network. Funny thing about wireless networks, they demand a heck of a ...

It can be hard to predict costs when planning a large-scale wireless LAN (WLAN). What impact does the new technology have on existing products, policies and procedures? Is there a significant learning ...

High-speed wireless LAN users may get more freedom and better security as the provider of IEEE 802.11a chips to many equipment vendors rolls out its second-generation silicon over the next few months.

Internet Security Systems this week announced it has expanded its security consulting practice to tackle vulnerabilities that may be associated with wireless LAN products from vendors that include ...